From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 5:36:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com [196.25.137.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B54A37B400 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 05:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 58423 invoked by uid 0); 22 Jun 2002 12:36:17 -0000 Received: from gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com (196.25.137.65) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 2002 12:36:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 34033 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Jun 2002 12:36:44 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:36:44 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Chris Dillon Cc: Terry Lambert , Lamont Granquist , Jason Andresen , "Brandon D. Valentine" , Darren Pilgrim , Evan Dower , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer) Message-ID: <20020622123644.GA33734@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <3D13B778.1BB52411@mindspring.com> <20020621235955.Y88554-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020621235955.Y88554-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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