From 43a5237c12a70acaaabe878e745e59843ee69cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 04:00:41 +0000 Subject: GSSAPI support is rockin'! svn path=/trunk/; revision=1979 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index c9303343..b5f16054 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/07/15 17:47:05 $ +$Date: 1998/07/20 04:00:38 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -324,7 +324,8 @@ vs. NT performance.

You can find sources for IMAP software at The IMAP Connection; we like the open-source UW IMAP and Cyrus products. UW IMAP is the reference -implementation of IMAP.

+implementation of IMAP. UW IMAP's support for GSSAPI gives you a +good way to authenticate without sending a password en clair.

Source for a high-quality supported implementation of POP is available from the Eudora @@ -403,10 +404,12 @@ 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 (May 1998) no OTP or APOP-like +Sadly, there is at present (July 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.

+daemon, version 4.1-BETA. And we have a report that the GSSAPI +support in fetchmail works with the GSSAPI support in the most recent +version of UW IMAP.

You can get both POP3 and IMAP OTP patches from Craig Metz, over FTP via either @@ -2043,7 +2046,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/07/15 17:47:05 $ +$Date: 1998/07/20 04:00:38 $

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