Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:36:44 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net>, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>, Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer) Message-ID: <20020622123644.GA33734@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20020621235955.Y88554-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> References: <3D13B778.1BB52411@mindspring.com> <20020621235955.Y88554-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Sat 2002-06-22 (00:06), Chris Dillon wrote: > Yes, but this is the case with any IMAP server and doesn't really have > anything to do with Cyrus in particular. Unlike other IMAP servers, > however, Cyrus supports SASL which offers plenty of non-plain-text > authentication options, unfortunately none of which work with a local > FreeBSD password database that I know of. Courier-IMAP supports SASL (PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1). > There is always the option > to use SSL, which is my preference, but unfortunately neither SSL nor > SASL have widespread IMAP client support yet. Most IMAP clients I know of support SSL. Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape, Evolution, mutt, pine, ... Which IMAP clients don't? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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