We have recently integrated Dovecot support into RAQdevil.
--Devon
2006/5/3, Yasuda Yutaka <yasuda (at mark) mfc.bakkers.gr.jp>:
> Hi Shibuya-san,
>
> Primarily, it sounds good to add POPS/IMAPS feature to BlueQuartz.
> And my opinion is;
> . drop APOP and let us go to POPS/IMAPS
> . don't think about "switchable" setup for backward compatibility
>
> But I think it is better to show my thought in this time.
>
> So, one of the advantage of Cobalt is the integration of
> several authentication methods and password management
> into single UI. User can change their password by telling
> the replacement password to UI at *once*.
> It is a key. very key.
>
> As a guy said, Dovecot may support APOP in future release.
> (or current version already has well tested APOP feature,
> but I am not sure. see below.)
>
> Either or, I am afraid that the UI level integration will be broken.
> I mean we may not able to integrate Dovecot APOP password
> change function. As you know, APOP needs not-encrypted
> password string then Qpopper use special password command
> named "popauth". But Cobalt succeed to hide it from user.
>
> This is a problem.
> So it is okay to add APOP feature to BlueQuartz using Dovecot
> if we can integrate it. If it is not possible, it is better that we
> give up APOP support.
>
> Regards,
> Yasu.
>
> Just for your information, Dovecot APOP issue which I understand;
>
> . wiki shows up Dovecot doesn't (or doesn't want) support
> APOP as their policy, see;
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication
> . Timo Sirainen (author of Dovecot) said version 1.0-tests
> support APOP in Feb. 2005;
> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-February/006320.html
> . In Oct. 2005, Timo said APOP works;
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-October/009500.html
> . the recent source codes seems to have APOP support code for
> POP3 access. See; src/pop3-login/client-authenticate.c
>
> but as I did glance Dovecot website, Timo is not
> active enough to support APOP totally.
>
> (And I did not test Dovecot by myself, sorry!)
>
>
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