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Re: HELP: debian IMAP client with non-kerberos encrypting authentication?



On Friday, 25 February 2000 at 22:01, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > On Friday, 25 February 2000 at 21:41, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for IMAP server/client, allowing for safe authentication (no plain
> > > text password transfer).
> > > The imap/fetchmail set requires installation of the whole kerberos suite,
> > > which is very big trouble... :-(.
> > 
> > fetchmail/uw-imap/cyrus all support CRAM-MD5, as do current mutt
> > versions. It's like APOP, and may suit your needs. Otherwise, you may
> > wish to consider tunneling over ssh or stunnel.
> 
> Thanks,
> Versions available in slink don't seem to support CRAM-MD5 :-(.
> Should I download the sources from potato and recompile them?

that sounds like the best approach, yes. How do you know they don't
support them, though? note for uw-imap to offer CRAM-MD5, you have to
have a file /etc/cram-md5.pwd available to the imap server.

-Brendan

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