Imap Server and Procmail

[michael Alexander]

I believe you have to add it into IE's certificate list, and then outlook
will remember it.
As for how to do that step with FreeBSD, I'm not sure on that.

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Drew Tomlinson
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:32 AM
> To: Matthew Seaman
> Cc: Loren M. Lang; FreeBSD Mailing list; Jonathan Chen
> Subject: Re: Imap Server and Procmail
> 
> 
> 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:
> >>>
> >>>[...]
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>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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