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Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 14:15:59 UTC 2004
On Jan 11, 2004, Warren Togami <warren at togami.com> wrote:
> Well, have you tried dovecot?
No, I only read its docs, just did again, and I don't see that it
supports preauth imap. In fact, when I run it from the command line,
all I get is:
[aoliva at free aoliva]$ dovecot
Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: Permission denied
whereas:
[aoliva at free aoliva]$ imapd
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] Pre-authenticated user aoliva free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br IMAP4rev1 2003.338rh at Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:12:22 -0200 (BRST)
See the PREAUTH. fetchmail uses that. Without it, the imap server
would have to be running as a privileged user, and I'd need an
additional password in its core to enable it to get access to my own
mailbox.
> It is quite nice, and without the hassle and unreliability of
> xinetd.
I don't want xinetd at all. I just need something that exposes to the
command-line my mailbox using the imap protocol, without the need for
additional authentication. UW-imap offers this, and no imap server in
the current development tree does. This is a major regression.
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