Re: new imap stuff. [OffTopic]

[patl Phoenix Volant ORG]

On 29-Aug-00 at 11:00, Nathan Clemons (nathan@windsofstorm.net) wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > I just would like to announce that _theoretically_ balsa has now support
> > for fancy IMAP authentiation/encryption methods like CRAM-MD5, SSL, GSS
> > at mutt-1.2.5i level. I haven't really tested it (just verified basic
> > functionality) but it is available for testing.
> > 
> 
> How does one set up their IMAP server for these encryption methods? I'd
> love to test but didn't know IMAP supported this?

IIRC IMAP doesn't specificly support any of those; but the IMAP spec
does include optional support for SASL authentication; and SASL provides
support for whatever authentication and encryption methods both client
and server can agree on.  (With standard methods for negotating several
standard methods, including the ones listed above.)

> Docs or URLs would be wonderful, thanks.

Start at http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/ for info about their
SASL library and the Cyrus IMAP/POP server; and links to all the
relevant RFCs.


-Pat