Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:10:07 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Josh Tolbert" <hemi@puresimplicity.net>, <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: juhasaarinen@gmail.com, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP Message-ID: <008f01c75a4f$15aa3160$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <45E25D3A.7070308@chrismaness.com><b34be8420702252016je5e15edl77e231266c9cec8a@mail.gmail.com><45E2604A.4060909@chrismaness.com><b34be8420702252240t2a0723b2qb5c60466ff04bf70@mail.gmail.com><45e2968a.pbbjenCoLr1b8zw7%perryh@pluto.rain.com><47503.163.150.15.182.1172503018.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org> <20070226153023.GA36082@just.puresimplicity.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Tolbert" <hemi@puresimplicity.net> To: <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: <juhasaarinen@gmail.com>; <perryh@pluto.rain.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:30 AM Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:16:58AM -0800, chris@chrismaness.com wrote: > > >> > How do I use the Cram-MD5 passwords with Outlook? > > >> > Or do I have to go plain text? > > >> > > >> Off-topic for FreeBSD-Questions but I don't believe > > >> Outlook supports CRAM-MD5 out of the box. > > > > > > *Not* off-topic, the context being how best to configure Outlook > > > for use with FreeBSD IMAP. One hopes something more secure than > > > plain-text passwords can be made to work. > > > > > > My answer is "Don't use Outlook. For anything. Period." > > > but the OP may be stuck with it for some reason. > > > > > > > Thank You, if I was talking about Anna Nichole Smith or something, that > > would be *OFF* topic. ;o). > > > > I am stuck with outlook if I want to synch my PDA phone to my e-mail. It > > seems to work ok with gmail pop3. Maybe I can just have sendmail foreward > > a copy of all my mail to gmail. > > > > Thanks Guys, > > > > Chris Maness > > I run imap-uw. Outlook 2003 works just fine with my mail server. However, I > haven't been able to get Outlook 2002 to work properly. If your using self-signed certificates the secret is you create a self-signed CA certificate, then import a copy of that into Internet Explorer, and then when you create the CSR for the imap server, sign it with your self-signed root CA certificate. This same restriction existed for all prior Outlook clients. In outlook 2003 MS finally got rid of that and allowed you to use self-signed imap certificates directly. Ted Outlook Express also > works fine for me. > > My (quite popular) page about running both sendmail and imap-uw with SSL/TLS > and authentication can be found here: > <http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html>. The page states > that one of the goals of the described mail setup is compatibility with > Microsoft e-mail clients. > > Thanks, > > Josh > -- > Josh Tolbert > hemi@puresimplicity.net || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ > > Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor > do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger > is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either > a daring adventure, or nothing. > -- Helen Keller > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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