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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 12:09:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Mario Pranjic <mario.pranjic@irb.hr>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sslwrap and imap
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.32.0205021209170.566-100000@nippur.irb.hr>

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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jason Stone wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 02:35:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jason Stone <jason@shalott.net>
> To: Mario Pranjic <mario.pranjic@irb.hr>
> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: sslwrap and imap
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> > How can I run imaps with sslwrap on FreeBSD? I use inetd on Solaris:
> >
> > imaps   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/sbin/tcpd
> > /usr/sbin/sslwrap       -cert   /usr/local/ssl/certs/server.pem
> > -exec   /usr/local/sbin/imapd
>
> Syntax is the same - everything after the "root" is the command to run -
> on solaris, it happens to run the service imap daemon via tcpd which
> probablly implements tcp wrappers and otherwise just passes data across
> transparently.  On freebsd, the config is essentially the same, you just
> have to get the command right.

That's the problem. FreeBSD doesn't have tcpd as a separate binary which I
can run. So, I don't really know what to put there instead.
Any idea?

> A possibly much better solution is to just use courier-imap in
> /usr/ports/mail.  Courier-imap is a more robust, more secure, more
> featureful imap daemon, and it speaks ssl natively - no need to use
> sslwrap.  The only barrier to using courier-imap is that the mailspools
> must be maildirs instead of traditional mbox's.

Yes, the maildir concept doesn't suit me. So I gave up from Courier-imap.
Too bad, because I think it's a great imapd.



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