imap-uw question

[Javier Henderson]

On Sep 18, 2006, at 3:16 PM, doug at safeport.com wrote:

> Has anyone configure imap-uw to accept plaintext passwords? The  
> options listed
> in the doumentation do not work. I have tried various combinations of
> PASSWDTYPE, SSLTYPE, and WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT with no success.
>
> Or is there a better imap/pop daemon to use? Thanks for any help.

I've switched from uw-imap to dovecot recently, and I'm quite pleased  
with the switch. Dovecot is configured using a plain text file,  
enabling and disabling features is a matter of editing the file and  
SIGHUP'ing dovecot, instead of recompiling like you have to do with  
uw-imap.

You can run dovecot in daemon mode, or invoke it from inetd. I run it  
in daemon mode.

Note that with dovecot you can easily configure it to accept  
plaintext on a given interface while forcing secure authentications  
on another. This may be useful in some cases, depending on network  
topology.

-jav