plaintext imap authentication

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Thu Jul 24 16:06:53 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 08:14, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Chris Ricker (kaboom at gatech.edu) said: 
> > Prior to this first beta, uw-imap was configured in alphas / rawhide with
> > plaintext authentication disabled when connecting over unsecured connections
> > (ie, pop / imap, but not pops / imaps).
> > 
> > In beta1, uw-imap and dovecot both accept plaintext auth via at least imap 
> > (didn't try pop). Was it decided that the world's not ready to give up 
> > plaintext yet after all? Or just an accidental reversion?
> 
> * Fri Jul 11 2003 John Dennis <jdennis at finch.boston.redhat.com> 1:2002d-1
> - bring upto new upstream release 2002d, change SSLTYPE to allow for plain text login again

I think it's a sensible move.  Disabling plain-text over non-SSL
connections would cause no end of support trouble and cost to existing
installations.

Wil
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