[PLUG] imap server that allows ssl certificate based authentication?

neil at aliens.la neil at aliens.la
Mon Oct 26 22:13:48 UTC 2015


Wow!  I never knew that existed for email servers.  I'll be interested 
to note the result when you've finished researching it.

Neil



On 2015-10-26 14:54, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> 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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