At 7:34 PM -0400 9/13/05, Stefan Jeglinski imposed structure on a
stream of electrons, yielding:
I see that I have been spoiled by Eudora and a server that supports
the poppassd protocol allowing a user to change their passwords via
their client?
I just assumed that all e-mail clients could do this since Eudora
could, and SIMS can. I since found that a) the protocol was
basically invented at Qualcomm, and that b) few (none?) other pop
clients support it.
And c) it is so grossly insecure that support for it should be
disabled in anything capable of it.
I guess that ISPs generally have web-based tools (aka scripts) that
interface to their mail servers so that users can log-on and change
to a desired password?
Yes. Through an encrypted channel, usually.
My problem actually involves an EIMS server on OS9. The only way a
user's password can be changed is a) I do it and therefore know the
password or b) the user does it with Eudora.
I am slowly planning my move from SIMS to a *nix mailserver. How is
something like this supported in postfix, for example? Are there
mailservers that do this without poppassd or have particularly
elegant tools for users to change their own passwords?
Postfix is purely an SMTP server. POP3 servers vary. As I don't run
any POP3 server on any Unix box currently and haven't for some years,
I have no answer for you (and when I DID, the users were all local
users on the host in question, and password changing was a matter of
logging in and running passwd...)
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Bill Cole
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