On Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:42:33 AM -0800 Christopher John Shaker
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| Patrick:
|
| The standard IMAPD is unsecure in a lot of ways. For one thing,
| you'll want to use a more secure authentication method, which
| doesn't put your user name and password on the net in plain text.
| Probably, you'll also want to use SSL or TLS to encrypt your
| imap connection.
|
| I use the Courier IMAPd, with Maildir support, with SSL
| protection configured. See: http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/.
| See also http://www.courier-mta.org/. Postfix, which SuSE
| supports directly, is easily configured to use Maildir instead of
| mbox. Qmail also supports Maildir directly.
|
| There is a lot of good information available from the qmail
| web site: http://qmail.valueclick.com/top.html#addons
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I personally was unaware that there was a standard IMAPD. If you mean UW
IMAPD then I have to agree that it has had problems, cyrus imapd (also on
the SuSE CD's) on the otherhand has not had a problem that I can recall.
The latest versions support SASL and TLS, although you can always use
stunnel.
/Michael
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