Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Dovecot and authentication

[Michael Sullivan]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 10:53 -0700, kashani wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > I've got a problem; My Dovecot installation uses plain text
> > authentication.  I don't like the idea of unencrypted passwords being
> > sent over the Internet, so I want to switch to a different
> > authentication method.  I'm mainly worried about my webmail client.  I
> > configured Apache last week for SSL access to the webmail client
> > (Squirrelmail), but my Windows users have been saying that they haven't
> > been able to access Squirrelmail since last week before I converted it
> > to SSL.  I tried it myself in Windows.  Windows said it couldn't even
> > find my domain.  After I turned off the SSL, Windows found it.  I need
> > something else.  The Dovecot wiki mentions several other authentication
> > methods (cram-md5 looks promising), but it doesn't say how to set up a
> > cram-md5 database.  Can anyone direct me on how to do this?
> >
>
> Do you have a real SSL cert and if so was it from a cheap provider? In
> many case the SSL root cert for that provider is not within IE which can
> break things. The fix is to add that particular SSL cert providers
> intermediate.crt. It's probably somewhere on their site along with
> directions on how to add it to Apache.
>
> kashani

I'm using a self-signed certificate.

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