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Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???
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Bob Carragher |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help??? |
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Sat, 04 May 2013 11:33:15 -0700 |
On Sat, 04 May 2013 10:21:26 -0400 Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:
> >I'd never heard of cyrus-sasl before, but I'd been installing
> >openssl for awhile (I forget why). Yeah, come to think of it, MH
> >was never a reason I became tired of maintaining dependencies. B-)
>
> Cyrus-sasl is a package which provides an API to do various
> sorts of authentication supported by different protocols (like
> SMTP & POP, which are what we care about in our case). You
> probably wouldn't have heard of it unless you're in the middle
> of that stuff.
Got it.
> >Hmm, as in "inc" will do the fetching for me (so that I won't need
> >to use "fetchmail" anymore)? Oh wow, it does! (It's been a long
> >time since I read the man page for inc .... B-) What are the
> >"limitations" that you hinted at?
>
> inc can fetch email from POP server ... and in fact, it always
> had that capability going back maybe a few decades. It wasn't
> always compiled in, though (more recently we made it always be
> compiled in). I won't bore you with the exact technical
> details, but right now inc _can_ do encryption to the POP
> server _if_ you use a SASL mechanism that supports encryption
> (that's how I use inc). But most POP servers (including the
> one at gmail) use TLS for encryption which currently inc
> doesn't support. There is an option to make it work; people
> successfully use the -proxy switch to inc to run a program that
> does the TLS for you. So yeah, you can make it work, it's just
> not as integrated as I would prefer.
>
> In fairness I must point out that there are a number of nmh
> users who don't feel inc should fetch email from POP servers;
> they prefer using fetchmail or an equivalent. You can check
> the mailing list archives for the discussions about that; I
> don't think they're worth rehashing again. Obviously I don't
> agree with that view, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention
> it.
Okay, I see.
Yeah, I would prefer to use the more integrated flows, so I'm not
likely to switch off of fetchmail in this case.
Thanks!
Bob
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, (continued)
Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Ken Hornstein, 2013/05/02
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Bob Carragher, 2013/05/02
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Bob Carragher, 2013/05/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Ken Hornstein, 2013/05/03
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Bob Carragher, 2013/05/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2013/05/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Bob Carragher, 2013/05/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Setup help???, Ken Hornstein, 2013/05/04
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