[imp] auth. using crammd5 -vs- clear text passwords with IMP

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:12:00 +0100


Zitat von Frederic Trudeau <ftrudeau@cam.org>:

> Hello all.
> 
> We just changed all off our machines here @ CAM. Problem is, our users
> cannot access their mail via IMP anymore. Every attemps to connect fails.
> I
> know IMP sends the pasword in clear text to the mail server, but does
> IMAP
> functions support the function to encrypt the password before sending it
> ?
> If so, where can I modify the code ? Thanks !

You need a c-client with ssl support, need to compile php --with-imap-ssl 
and enable ssl authentication in IMP.

Jan.

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