Re: login in uw imap on Mac Os

Hi Mark,
thanks for your reply.

Mark Crispin wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, catonano@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > There's no way to log in. The instruction say to connect with telnet
> > and try to use the usual account on my machine
>
> What instructions "say to connect with TELNET"? Such instructions have
> been obsolete for many years. If there are such instructions in the UW
> distribution, I want to remove them.

I found that suggestion here:
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/eart.2.3.html


> Normally, you can NOT log in with a TELNET connection. The server will
> refuse password logins unless the session is encrypted. This behavior is
> required by the IMAP specification and by all newer Internet protocol
> specifications; note too that most systems these days won't let you TELNET
> in and instead require you to use SSH.

Ok, thanks.

> There is nothign noteworthy in the log.

> > I also tried with Mail (the Apple mail client) and it can't login too.
>
> Did you try an SSL connection with Mail? I know for a fact that Mail
> works with UW imapd.
>
> Other things to consider:
>
> Did you set up IMAP rules in /etc/pam.d?
>
> Did you set up IMAP server certificates in /System/Library/OpenSSL/certs
> and IMAP private keys in /System/Library/OpenSSL/private?

No, I didn't prepare nothing of all theese things.

Well, now, at least, I know something new.
I think that I'm going to try with Darwinports, as suggested by Aaron,
and try to start from that solution and understand all theese things
about PAM and ssl keys.

Thanks, anyhow
Bye
Catonano

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