[imp] Help with imaps not connecting

[Lord Apollyon]

> Oh, that's not good...
> 
> The default imap build includes support for SSL and disables use of
> plaintext passwords, hence the message you quote above.  You could
> either add support for SASL or build with SSLTYPE=unix to allow the use
> of plaintext passwords with SSL (see docs/SSLBUILD). 

One thing many people forget is that the WU-IMAP stuff always includes 
support for CRAM-MD5 "look-aside" passwords as well, which use one-way 
hashes for authentication consulted from a sidebar password file rather 
than /etc/shadow.  The look-aside password file is /etc/cram-md5.pwd I 
believe.  It's formatting is rather strict: exactly one tab must separate 
the username from the password, and the file needs to have an ending 
linefeed.  Both ipop3d and imapd consult it, and any c-client mail based 
client understands how to present those credentials to them.  In fact, I 
think it's all seamless...

On many of my mail servers, I don't use the system password at all, but 
rather that look-aside password file.

=R=