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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:10:42 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas/smtpd password authentication
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> 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.
> 

it might not be complicated, but there are many users for whom the box
must be checked.  these users are often twenty miles down the road.

- erik