On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:13:48PM -0700, n...@aliens.la wrote:
> Wow!  I never knew that existed for email servers.  I'll be interested 
> to note the result when you've finished researching it.

With the world filled with lazy people? It has to be. 
One option seems to be Dovecot.  
    http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration
Scroll down to "Client certificate verification/authentication"

 
> On 2015-10-26 14:54, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 02:43:34PM -0700, n...@aliens.la wrote:
> >> 
> >> I've used both dovecot and courier with SSL certificates so i'm not 
> >> sure
> >> why you are not able to.
> >> 
> >> I might be misunderstanding what an SSL shared key is.
> > 
> > This is for client authentication when connecting to the imap server.
> > Rather than checking my password against /etc/shadow I want it to 
> > request
> > my shared key stored in ~/.ssh and compare to the public version in
> > ~/.ssh on the mail server.
> > 
> > Much like being able to ssh to another server when you have the keys 
> > set up.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On 2015-10-26 14:40, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> >> > My current imap server is Courier. And having finally set up mutt to
> >> > use imap based message stores I'd like to also use my ssl shared key
> >> > for authentication.  Courier does not support this.  What imap servers
> >> > do?
> >> >
> >> > (currently searching Dovecot references...)
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