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Re: imap configuration



On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:18:25AM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > With sendmail this is done with:
> > PKG_OPTIONS.sendmail+=sasl tls
> > and rebuild sendmail. This should pull in cyrus-sasl.
> 
> I would recommend to user neither Sendmail nor Cyrus SASL. Both have
> a very poor security track record. The combination of Postfix and
> Dovecot (for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP with TLS and authentication)
> works very well.

True. But both have not had serious issue for quite some time
(2009 for both sendmail and cyrus-sasl). There's been CVEs for
dovecot and postfix newer than that :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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