Hi

An example of UW-imapd/pine "integration":

When UW-imapd is invoked from a local shell:

[tzafrir@yarden tzafrir]$ /usr/sbin/imapd
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS SCAN SORT
THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] Pre-authenticated
user tzafrir yarden IMAP4rev1 2001.315mdk at Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:35:06
+0200 (IST)

This means that I'm already authenticated as "tzafrir", and I don't have
to login. This can be handy for people who already have shell access and
normally authenticate using a ssh public key.

Pine supports such access method to an imap server. I couldn't find any
trace to that in the user interface and on-line help, but the .pinerc file
does include ssh_command, which is documented there, and it is documented
elsewhere that ssh authentication (as well as rsh authentication) is
attempted before plain text authentication is attempted.

Any other mailer supports this? Any other mail server?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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