Re: backporting uw-imapd
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:14:28PM -0700, nate wrote:
> David Fokkema said:
>
> > Great, :-). Let me rephrase: how do I disable unencrypted, plaintext
> > passwords speeding over my network?
>
> what I do is use sslwrap and xinetd
>
> using xinetd I tell it to bind the IMAP service to 127.0.0.1
>
> then I use sslwrap to wrap TCP/993 and point it to 127.0.0.1:143
>
> works good.
>
> infact I do the opposite on my zaurus, with stunnel. I don't have
> an IMAPS capable client on the zaurus so I have stunnel, and
> told stunnel to redirect localhost:993 to my imap server on 993,
> and it works good :)
>
> going the sslwrap route may be less complicated and faster to
> setup. I've used sslwrap with cyrus imap and pop for more then
> 2 years now with no problems.
Sslwrap seems great. I will most certainly try this one out. Thanks!
David
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