docs/157116: Mention dovecot as a pop/imap server

Niclas Zeising zeising at daemonic.se
Tue May 17 12:40:12 UTC 2011


>Number:         157116
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Mention dovecot as a pop/imap server
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 17 12:40:07 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Niclas Zeising
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD vincent.daemonic.se 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 20 17:22:47 CEST 2011 root at vincent.daemonic.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VINCENT amd64


	
>Description:
	In the section about pop3/imap servers several are listed, but dovecot, a well known and widely used is not, update to add that to the list as well.
>How-To-Repeat:
	N/A
>Fix:

	Attached patch adds dovecot to the list of pop3/imap servers.
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Index: chapter.sgml
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.140
diff -u -d -r1.140 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml	5 Dec 2010 10:21:23 -0000	1.140
+++ chapter.sgml	17 May 2011 12:09:05 -0000
@@ -321,6 +321,10 @@
 	        <listitem>
 		  <para><application>courier-imap</application>;</para>
 	        </listitem>
+
+	        <listitem>
+	          <para><application>dovecot</application>;</para>
+	        </listitem>
 	      </itemizedlist>
 
 	  </step>
@@ -345,8 +349,9 @@
 	    username and password credentials in clear-text.  This means
 	    that if you wish to secure the transmission of information
 	    across these protocols, you should consider tunneling
-	    sessions over &man.ssh.1;.  Tunneling sessions is
-	    described in <xref linkend="security-ssh-tunneling">.</para>
+	    sessions over &man.ssh.1 or using SSL;.  Tunneling sessions is
+	    described in <xref linkend="security-ssh-tunneling"> and SSL is
+	    described in <xref linkend="security-openssl">.</para>
         </warning>
       </sect3>
 
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