Matthew Seaman told a big fish story including the following on 1/21/2004 1:26 AM:

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:22:25PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:


On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:22:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:18:07PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:

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access. I installed uw-imap as it's what I used on linux. It doesn't
have any confg file support and was pretty much plug in way, but on
freebsd it doesn't seem to be working, it gives the error message bad
username or password. What am I missing, there doesn't seem to be
anything to even configure for it to complain about.


You need to build the mail/imap-uw port and the underlying mail/cclient
with -DWITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT.


Will this require SSL for using plaintext or can I avoid SSL? This is
for a company migrating from a windoze mail server to a unix-based
solution and I don't want to have to install a homemade CA cert on all
the 40+ computers there.



No, you misunderstand. mail/cclient defaults to doing SSL-ized stuff, and this option adds back the ability to work in plaintext.

Even so, you can run IMAPS (encrypted IMAP, uses port 993) and access
it via MS Outlook quite happily, without having to install
certificates all over the place.


However, you will have to teach your users to accept the "security certificate cannot be verified" message at the beginning of a mail session. This has proved a difficult concept for a few of my users. It seems there should be some way to teach Outlook to accept it permanently but I have not been able to do so. If you find a solution to this, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Cheers,

Drew
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