Imap Server and Procmail

[Drew Tomlinson]

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:
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>>On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:22:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>You need to build the mail/imap-uw port and the underlying mail/cclient
>>>with -DWITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT.
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>>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.
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>No, you misunderstand.  mail/cclient defaults to doing SSL-ized stuff,
>and this option adds back the ability to work in plaintext.
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>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.
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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