On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:47:10 +0100 Rory Campbell-Lange rory@campbell-lange.net wrote:
You have the choice of holding the plain passwd, a PLAIN-MD5, DIGEST-MD5 or a crypt version in the database. However - choose wisely based on what the mail clients will support - there's a lot of variation. Sylpheed will do PLAIN or CRAM-MD5 only. You may find that despite the obvious issues, PLAIN is the best to use as everything can use it. Or if the user's already authenticate via some other mechanism, use that if dovecot supports it.
I'm mainly supporting OSX Mail and XP Outlook users. Are they OK at supporting DIGEST-MD5 or crypt? Maybe I should use IMAPS and plain?
Hi
SSL and PLAIN is what we use - at least it's guaranteed to work with every client on the planet.
Cheers
Tim
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