Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Tolbert" <hemi at puresimplicity.net>
To: <chris at chrismaness.com>
Cc: <juhasaarinen at gmail.com>; <perryh at pluto.rain.com>;
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP


> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:16:58AM -0800, chris at chrismaness.com wrote:
> > >> > How do I use the Cram-MD5 passwords with Outlook?
> > >> > Or do I have to go plain text?
> > >>
> > >> Off-topic for FreeBSD-Questions but I don't believe
> > >> Outlook supports CRAM-MD5 out of the box.
> > >
> > > *Not* off-topic, the context being how best to configure Outlook
> > > for use with FreeBSD IMAP.  One hopes something more secure than
> > > plain-text passwords can be made to work.
> > >
> > > My answer is "Don't use Outlook.  For anything.  Period."
> > > but the OP may be stuck with it for some reason.
> > >
> >
> > Thank You, if I was talking about Anna Nichole Smith or something, that
> > would be *OFF* topic. ;o).
> >
> > I am stuck with outlook if I want to synch my PDA phone to my e-mail.
It
> > seems to work ok with gmail pop3.  Maybe I can just have sendmail
foreward
> > a copy of all my mail to gmail.
> >
> > Thanks Guys,
> >
> > Chris Maness
>
> I run imap-uw. Outlook 2003 works just fine with my mail server. However,
I
> haven't been able to get Outlook 2002 to work properly.

If your using self-signed certificates the secret is you create a
self-signed CA
certificate, then import a copy of that into Internet Explorer, and then
when
you create the CSR for the imap server, sign it with your self-signed root
CA
certificate.  This same restriction existed for all prior Outlook clients.

In outlook 2003 MS finally got rid of that and allowed you to use
self-signed
imap certificates directly.

Ted

Outlook Express also
> works fine for me.
>
> My (quite popular) page about running both sendmail and imap-uw with
SSL/TLS
> and authentication can be found here:
> <http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html>. The page
states
> that one of the goals of the described mail setup is compatibility with
> Microsoft e-mail clients.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
> -- 
> Josh Tolbert
> hemi at puresimplicity.net  ||  http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/
>
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