From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 12:11:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB4F37B404 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03293; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:10:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:10:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Terry Lambert , Lamont Granquist , Jason Andresen , "Brandon D. Valentine" , Darren Pilgrim , Evan Dower , Subject: Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer) In-Reply-To: <20020622123644.GA33734@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: <20020622140116.G2885-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 22 Jun 2002, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > 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). I should have said "unlike some other IMAP servers". Thanks to the simple BSD-like license on the Cyrus SASL implementation, it has found its way into a lot of places. > > 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, ... I know Netscape didn't have that ability for a long time, and neither did Outlook or OE. Mutt and Pine have had it since around 1999, though. > Which IMAP clients don't? If all of the above now support SSL for IMAP connections, then I can't think of any. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon(at)inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message