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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 6e4a3d55..ee9a2d9c 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/19 07:30:18 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/24 17:43:11 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -365,14 +365,31 @@ their RPA authentication (which works much like APOP). See <a href="#T7">T7</a> for details.<P> Your POP3 server may have the RFC1938 OTP capability to use one-time -passwords. To check this, look for the string "otp-" in the greeting -line. If you see it, and your fetchmail was built with OPIE support -compiled in (see the distribution INSTALL file), fetchmail will -detect it also. When using OTP, you will specify a password but it -will not be sent en clair.<P> - -Sadly, there is at present (October 1997) no OTP or APOP-like facility -generally available on IMAP servers.<P> +passwords (if it doesn't, you can get OTP patches for the 2.2 version +of the Qualcomm popper from <a href="#cmetz">Craig Metz</a>). To check +this, look for the string "otp-" in the greeting line. If you see it, +and your fetchmail was built with OPIE support compiled in (see the +distribution INSTALL file), fetchmail will detect it also. When using +OTP, you will specify a password but it will not be sent en clair.<P> + +Sadly, there is at present (February 1998) no OTP or APOP-like +facility generally available on IMAP servers. However, there do exist +patches which will OTP-enable the University of Washington IMAP +daemon, version 4.1-BETA.<P> + +You can get both POP3 and IMAP OTP patches from <a name="cmetz">Craig +Metz</A>, over FTP via either +<a href="ftp://ftp.inner.net/pub/opie/patches"> +ftp://ftp.inner.net/pub/opie/patches</a> (IPv4) or +<a href="ftp://ftp.ipv6.inner.net/pub/opie/patches"> +ftp://ftp.ipv6.inner.net/pub/opie/patches</a> (IPv6).MP> + +These patches use a SASL authentication method named "X-OTP" because there is +not currently a standard way to do this; fetchmail also uses this method, so +the two will interoperate happily. They better, because this is how Craig gets +his mail ;)<P> + +(One important win of OTP is that it's not subject to ITAR restrictions.)<P> <hr> <h2><a name="G9">G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a></h2> @@ -1816,7 +1833,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/19 07:30:18 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/24 17:43:11 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |