[Dovecot] Mozilla/Thunderbird secure authentication

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 6 20:45:09 EET 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:33 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote:
> I am finishing up getting SSL/IMAP working on our mail server and I 
> notice the Use secure authentication box....very little I can find out 
> about it, except that everyone says NOT to use it and maybe it's only 
> for POP, not IMAP.
> Can you confirm?...googled you on this.

It probably means CRAM-MD5 authentication. See authentication mechanisms
in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication

> Also, isn't authentication secure with SSL/IMAP anyway?????

Yep. It's more or less useless with SSL.

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