On Fri, 2 May 2003, David Krider wrote:
On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 17:20, ghugh Song wrote:
After the upgrade of SuSE-8.2, it suddenly does not work anymore. I enabled imapd from xinetd configuration. Therefore, it should work.
Here's the final deal. (See my other mail for a workaround.) What you can do to get "normal" imaps operation running is...
1) Create a stanza in /etc/xinetd.d/imap like so:
# # imaps - SSL-encrypted imap mail daemon # service imaps { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/imapd server_args = -s flags = IPv4 }
2) Create an SSL cert. You might already have one from before. It goes in /etc/ssl/certs, and needs to be named "imapd.pem". If you need a new one, you can use this to create it (from http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/SSLBUILD.html):
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out imapd.pem -keyout imapd.pem -days 365
HTH, dk
Wow! Thank you very much. Certainly, that is beyond my understanding. Indeed, I was about to post another question regarding SSL and Enigmail. etc. It is getting more difficult to use Unix in general. About 15 years ago, everything was so simple. Only one gigabyte of hard disc space contained everything - the system and my data. I used to compile a number of tools myself. X11R3 and TeX were the most important things. The size increase is not really a problem. But all those security related configuration requirements really became too much for me. Firewall, Engimail, SSL, ssh, Spamassasin, Procmail, PAM, Security feature of samba, etc. etc. etc. Regards, G. Hugh Song