On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:07 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:52:40 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > I've got a problem; My Dovecot installation uses plain text
> > authentication.  I don't like the idea of unencrypted passwords being
> > sent over the Internet, so I want to switch to a different
> > authentication method.  I'm mainly worried about my webmail client.  I
> > configured Apache last week for SSL access to the webmail client
> > (Squirrelmail),
> 
> Are SquirrelMail and Dovecot running on the same box? If so, the
> unencrypted passwords are only being used within that box, between
> SquirrelMail and Dovecot.
> 
> > but my Windows users have been saying that they haven't
> > been able to access Squirrelmail since last week before I converted it
> > to SSL.
> 
> You need to fix the SSL/Windows/SquirrelMail problem, otherwise your
> users will be sending plain text passwords across the Internet, no matter
> how SquirrelMail communicates with Dovecot.

What problem?  I could connect to Squirrelmail just fine from Seamonkey in 
Linux.  The problem is Windows.  I don't do Windows.

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