Re: [Fink-users] imap installed, but not in list

[Alexander K. H. <ha...@ld...>]

On Aug 29, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>
>> Run "dpkg -S /sw/bin/imapd" to see what installed it.  My guess would 
>> be
>> that it got installed by pine(-ssl).
>
> You're right. Thanks! In fact, imapd was installed by pine or pine-ssl.
>
> However, there is a strange thing: pine's imapd (Pine 4.60, IMAP4rev1
> 2004.350) works fine with Apple Mail, whereas pine-ssl's imapd (Pine
> 4.61, IMAP4rev1 2004.352) does not. With the newer imapd, Apple Mail
> tells me that the server does not accept the password. The old version
> works fine.
>
> I know that this is not a pure fink problem, but since it is caused by
> the change of fink packages (pine to pine-ssl), somebody might have
> solved this problem already.
>
> Greetings,
> Claus
>

I use that version of imapd (in secure mode) with Apple Mail.  What I 
had to do was create, using sudo, a file called /etc/cram-md5.pwd.  In 
that file, on each line put a user name, hit TAB, then enter a password 
(which doesn't have to be your account password):

name	password
name2	password2

The ownership and permissions should be like so:

-rw-------  1 root  wheel  32  3 Jun 22:04 /etc/cram-md5.pwd

You may have to reboot or otherwise restart imapd.
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documentarian
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