Re: OpenSSL - Any good tutorials (or cook-books) available?

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 08:28:31AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 02:10:05PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > I don't think I need anything fancy, just need to provide a secure
> > channel between my local machine(s) and a remote imaps server, so
> > that the server can authenticate me without sending a clear-text
> > password on the wire.
> > 
> > Suggestions, anyone?
> 
> When talking of IMAP, SASL springs to mind (security/cyrus-sasl) - any
> use?

Dovecot ("pkgsrc/mail/dovecot2") has SASL support built in and can be used
as backend for the Postfix distributed with NetBSD. This combination
works very well for me at home.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/