"Takehiko Abe" <keke@gol.com> writes:
I am using dovecot [1.0 beta3] as a pop server with drac. It is
Drac is an abomination that needs to go away.
I am requesting to unsupport it before Dovecot 1.0.
Drac is insecure by design, in that it doesn't authenticate the same channel (but POP3/IMAP instead) that is being privileged (SMTP for relay), and without any clue of how long dynamic IP mappings remain stable. Better solutions are available (and have been for years), namely SMTP AUTH, supported by all relevant mail transfer agents(*) and - IMO - all relevant clients.
(*) I do not consider qmail relevant any more. <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/qmail-bugs.html>
-- Matthias Andree
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:16 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
"Takehiko Abe" <keke@gol.com> writes:
I am using dovecot [1.0 beta3] as a pop server with drac. It is
Drac is an abomination that needs to go away.
I am requesting to unsupport it before Dovecot 1.0.
Drac is insecure by design, in that it doesn't authenticate the same channel (but POP3/IMAP instead) that is being privileged (SMTP for relay), and without any clue of how long dynamic IP mappings remain stable. Better solutions are available (and have been for years), namely SMTP AUTH, supported by all relevant mail transfer agents(*) and - IMO - all relevant clients.
a question from an uninitated: what is drac after all?
-- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at
Udo Rader wrote:
a question from an uninitated: what is drac after all?
Dynamic Relay Authorization Control. <http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/>
[it is simple... and i think it is clean <duck>]
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:16 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
"Takehiko Abe" <keke@gol.com> writes:
I am using dovecot [1.0 beta3] as a pop server with drac. It is
Drac is an abomination that needs to go away.
I am requesting to unsupport it before Dovecot 1.0.
Since it's a plugin that's not even distributed with Dovecot, I don't see any reason to "unsupport" it.
participants (4)
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Matthias Andree
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Takehiko Abe
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Timo Sirainen
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Udo Rader