On Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:42:33 AM -0800 Christopher John Shaker wrote: +------ | 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 [...] +-----X8 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 -- This space intentionally left non-blank.

Michael: Yes, I was referring to UW Imapd as the 'standard' imapd. Yes, stunnel works fine, too, with Outlook Express clients. I used to use that with UW Imapd. I had tried using Cyrus imapd at one point, and was having authentication problems. Found Courier imapd to be easy to build, install, configure, and use with SSL, with Netscape and Outlook Express clients. Chris Shaker

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

download and install it. then connect to your imap server and login anonymously by typing telnet 127.0.0.1 143 x login anonymous some@e.mail x logout if the server responds with "x OK ..." the package is buggy and you better get it off your computer or start blocking port 143 from the net. kind regards, michael