From 4f25b2a358a81a225bc2c925bba0445d7763b89d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:43:11 +0000 Subject: Added stuff on IMAP OTP. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1669 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) 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 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -365,14 +365,31 @@ their RPA authentication (which works much like APOP). See T7 for details.

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.

- -Sadly, there is at present (October 1997) no OTP or APOP-like facility -generally available on IMAP servers.

+passwords (if it doesn't, you can get OTP patches for the 2.2 version +of the Qualcomm popper from Craig Metz). 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.

+ +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.

+ +You can get both POP3 and IMAP OTP patches from Craig +Metz, over FTP via either + +ftp://ftp.inner.net/pub/opie/patches (IPv4) or + +ftp://ftp.ipv6.inner.net/pub/opie/patches (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 ;)

+ +(One important win of OTP is that it's not subject to ITAR restrictions.)

G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?

@@ -1816,7 +1833,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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