Ruben Safir wrote:
I'm confused. Is the pop3 servier installed with SuSE 9.3 worthless without ssl or ldap? When I turn on pop and use evolution, the logs indicated that no user was sent, but when I used fetchmail with verbose, it looks like it doesn't accecpt USER authentication. IIRC, since 8.2 the imap package (UW imap, with both a pop server and imap server) has disabled plaintext password authentication for security reasons. Though I have heard of possibilities of getting it working without rebuilding to accept plaintext (BTW, this was not a SuSE thing but a change with the UW imap programmers), for my 8.2 server I rebuilt (and accepted the risk during the build), for all others I moved to ssl. It works fine with ssl, and making the certificate is easy enough with the SuSE helpfile. For the record, my 8.2 is open only for pop from the LAN, so decided it was easier to rebuild than have all our users change to use ssl. That will change when I update that server to 9.3. So, to answer your questions, it is hardly worthless without, but AFAIK it will NOT work with plaintext passwords. My advice, make an ssl certificate, and have the users access via pop3s, port 995. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871