On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:24:35 -0800 (PST), "Mark Crispin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Otto Maddox wrote:
> > The problem is that the server won't authenticate me. Apple Mail, for
> > instance, keeps telling me the server rejected the password.
> 
> Since you say that you are using SSLTYPE=none, we know that this is not 
> the "no plaintext passwords on non-SSL/TLS sessions" issue.

I hadn't come across this issue.  Do I need to be aware of it?  (For
when I get around to building SSL-enabled imapd.)

> You said that you used "osx".  I don't think that works with Tiger; even 
> privileged processes no longer get the password via getpwnam().
> 
> Consequently, you must use "oxp", and set up a PAM rule file for IMAP. 
> So, do
>       make clean
>       make oxp SSLTYPE=none
>       sudo cp imapd/imapd /usr/local/libexec
> to update imapd to a PAM version.
> 
> As for a PAM rule file, I just copied the FTP rules:
>       cd /etc/pam.d
>       sudo cp ftpd imap

It works.  Thanks very much :-)

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