IMAP problems with SuSE 9.0

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:

> Well, I decided to take matters into my own hands and rebuild the imap 
> server package (the standard one supplied by SuSE, which is UW IMAP, not 
> courier or cyrus). I started with the SuSE SRPM, made the changes to 
> allow cleartext password login on non-encrypted connections, and 
> installed it. This imap uses the standard mailbox file format, so it has 
> the usual file locking limitations. (Mostly, it means that if you have 
> an IMAP client open somewhere, and you also try to run a shell on the 
> mail server and run Pine, Pine won't be able to expunge deleted messages 
> from the mailbox.)
> 
> To keep it from being a huge security hole, I modified the xinetd 
> configuration for imap and pop3 (also handled by the same package). 
> Unencrypted imap and pop3 are only allowed from hosts on my own LAN, 
> including the mail server itself - that means that squirrelmail works 
> from anywhere, and all the usual clients work from here. If you're 
> outside the house, you have to use an encrypted connection (or use 
> squirrelmail to read your mail) - that limits your choice of clients, 
> but you can still get in. Next step will be to put the squirrelmail on 
> an https: virtual host to take care of that potential hole.
> 
> I can send people the updated RPMs for imap and the changes to the 
> xinetd configuration if anyone wants them.

Could you send me a copy of this?

Thanks.


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