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On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:07 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:52:40 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > I've got a problem; My Dovecot installation uses plain text |
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> > authentication. I don't like the idea of unencrypted passwords being |
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> > sent over the Internet, so I want to switch to a different |
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> > authentication method. I'm mainly worried about my webmail client. I |
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> > configured Apache last week for SSL access to the webmail client |
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> > (Squirrelmail), |
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> Are SquirrelMail and Dovecot running on the same box? If so, the |
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> unencrypted passwords are only being used within that box, between |
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> SquirrelMail and Dovecot. |
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> > but my Windows users have been saying that they haven't |
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> > been able to access Squirrelmail since last week before I converted it |
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> > to SSL. |
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> You need to fix the SSL/Windows/SquirrelMail problem, otherwise your |
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> users will be sending plain text passwords across the Internet, no matter |
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> how SquirrelMail communicates with Dovecot. |
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What problem? I could connect to Squirrelmail just fine from Seamonkey in Linux. The problem is Windows. I don't do Windows. |
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