Single sign-on infrastructure (FC5 wish)

[Bernardo Innocenti]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 07:26 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> 
>> - I couldn't get password-less IMAP to work with
>>   courier-imap because of limited SASL support.
>>   Maybe I'd be more lucky with cyrus-imap, but it
>>   doesn't support Maildirs, so I can't switch;
> 
> Passwordless IMAP works for me. Try invoking courier or dovecot over an
> SSH login. Evolution and mutt at least can run 'ssh $server exec imapd'
> instead of trying to make a TCP connection to the imap server and then
> authenticating to it.

Nice hack!  I'm afraid neither Thunderbird and KMail
can't do that.

By the way, does Thunderbird even support anything besides
password logins?  I'd prefer not to force users to switch
to another MUA, expecially on Windows clients.

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