On Sat, 04 May 2013 10:21:26 -0400 Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> 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 _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers