[PLUG] imap server that allows ssl certificate based authentication?
Michael Rasmussen
michael at jamhome.us
Mon Oct 26 21:54:38 UTC 2015
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 02:43:34PM -0700, neil at 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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