I recently discovered that I need to occasionallyforward Email from a FreeBSD system to a Macintosh. Imap does look like the best solution to this problem. The mail program on the Mac lists several protocols such as pop (okay with me) and SSL certificates which I want to avoid if at all possible.
Which of the several listed methods of authenticationshould I compile in as I build dovecot on the FreeBSD system?
Options for dovecot 1.2.10 [X] KQUEUE kqueue(2) support [ ] SSL SSL support [ ] IPV6 IPv6 support [ ] MANAGESIEVE ManageSieve support [ ] GSSAPI GSSAPI support [ ] VPOPMAIL VPopMail support [ ] BDB BerkleyDB support [ ] LDAP OpenLDAP support [ ] PGSQL PostgreSQL support [ ] MYSQL MySQL support [ ] SQLITE SQLite support � �
IPV6 is not used here and my laziness says to avoidcreating any new data bases or data base servers to support something I will probably use once every 2 or 3 months for one or 2 messages. I just want to get on the Mac and read messages posted in a certain account on the FreeBSD system.
Sorry if this all sounds a bit odd, but I usually readmail on the FreeBSD box. Occasionally, I get a message containing a 20-mile-long URL that works better when using the Mac's safari browser tools.
Presently, I have succeeded in compiling dovecot on thefreeBSD system which runs and looks like it is ready to work. The Mac contacts the freeBSD box and then both appear to get a death grip on each other and nothing much happens until I force a quit of mail on the Mac.
Thanks for any suggestions.Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group