Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > But when I look at the *Messages* buffer I see this: > > Reading active file via nnfolder... > nnfolder: Reading incoming mail from imap... > imap: Connecting to <myserver>... > imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 > -connect %s:%p'...done
This more or less means openssl is used to tunnel imap. > Waiting for response from <myserver>...done > imap: Authenticating to `<myserver>' using `login'... > imap: Plaintext authentication... > imap: Authenticating to `<myserver>' using `login'...done > nnfolder: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done > > Plaintext is *not* what I want! I did check the manual about this > 'login' authentication thing, and got very confused. It sure looks > like that means cleartext authentication unless told otherwise. How do > I tell it otherwise?! Do I have to use nnimap for this to work? Since > an openssl connection is made, is this just a nonsense warning that > I'm sending a cleartext password along my ssl connection, i.e. not > sending the password in cleartext at all? You, probably don't send a cleartext password along your ssl connection but within. To convince yourself you can use some packet sniffer like tcpdump or wireshark. > I need someone to tell me how email over ssl is supposed to work. You probably have it working. Greetings, Jens _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
