which courier?

[bg011ca]

Hi there.

One question if I may, please.

While installing stuff, following instruction from web, I have noticed that Toaster is installing courier-imap-1.7.0, while last one for freBSD is version 2.2.0,1.

Do I go with Toaster or do I put one from Ports

Thanks

[matt]

Stick with Ports until the broken authentication stuff is fixed in courier. Hint:  you'll see the toaster use the newer version when that happens.

Matt

[davidcl]

I'm not sure Matt said what he meant here.  I think Matt means that authentication is broken in 2.2.0, so DON'T install it from ports, use the version installed by the toaster.

No?

[matt]

Ahem,  stick with the version the toaster installs by default. Yeah, what David said.

the preauthvchkpw stuff has been broken on courier-imap for an eternity.   I saw a bunch of the needed code fixes will be in the next "release" of courier-imap and when that happens, I'll test it on my servers and if it works well there, then, and only then, will it turn it loose on Mail::Toaster users.

PS: If you're clever and can do a little C hacking, it's easy to work around the problems in current releases of courier-imap.  There is no other reason not to use current versions.