From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas/smtpd password authentication
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:05:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2324AE74-36F9-4BF3-B0C8-55B517EFBFFE@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a579fc66314c00596b0b6f99acf5fc8@quanstro.net>
On 2007-Dec-16, at 15:16 , erik quanstrom wrote:
> tls seems like something extra to break. i have several
> dozen mac/windows users that need detailed instructions
> for every change.
>
> i'm not a security expert. what case that i can't currently see
> would tls solve for me that's worth the extra configuration.
> what am i missing?
Starting with RFC 3516 (latest IMAP4rev1), TLS support is mandatory.
I'm not sure what problems you're running into with clients -- I've
rolled out TLS-aware IMAP clients to hundreds of end-users, and it's
no more difficult than any of the other IMAP4 configuration you have
to deal with. For most clients these days, enabling TLS involves
ticking off a checkbox.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-17 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-15 0:09 erik quanstrom
2007-12-15 0:16 ` Steve Simon
2007-12-15 0:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-16 18:02 ` Russ Cox
2007-12-16 23:16 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-17 16:54 ` Jonathan D. Proulx
2007-12-17 17:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-17 18:33 ` Jonathan D. Proulx
2007-12-17 19:40 ` Wes Kussmaul
2007-12-17 17:52 ` Russ Cox
2007-12-17 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2007-12-17 21:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-12-17 21:10 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-17 23:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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