Bug 69700 - RFE: Add dracd support to imap-2001a and add dracd package
Summary: RFE: Add dracd support to imap-2001a and add dracd package
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: imap
Version: limbo
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-24 16:38 UTC by Nathan G. Grennan
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-24 16:38:21 UTC
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Description Nathan G. Grennan 2002-07-24 16:38:17 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020720

Description of problem:
dracd adds support for imap before smtp. This is a great way to solve the remote
relayers problem. It requires a patch to imap-2001a(avaiable) and the daemon. It
works by imap looking dracd up via portmap, reporting to dracd that a user has
logged in, and then dracd writes the right file for the mail server. The mail
server if configured to read the file allows users that have just authenicated
via imap to relay for a set period of time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. up2date --showall | grep dracd

	

Actual Results:  Nothing

Expected Results:  dracd-1.11-1

Additional info:

http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/ is the main page. 

http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/pop.html is links to patches for various
pop3/imap servers


I have set this up on a RedHat 7.3 box and I am very happy with it. It would be
nice if I didn't have to match imap-2001a in the future when upgrading and I
think this is a feature many other people would use.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-07-24 19:18:54 UTC
UW imap is not real open source software.  Any patches which add features
to it need to be approved by UW, and included in an official UW imap
release in the stock source code prior to it being included in Red Hat
Linux.  The University in particular does not maintain prior software
versions too well, which places an additional burden on Red Hat to keep
the package updated with security fixes, etc. since the UW's solution
is always to upgrade to their beta development code.

Forking their code by patching it with feature patches, means that this
support burden is extended to a greater extent to Red Hat.

If these patches are stable, and sane, they should be submitted to
the university for inclusion in imap 2002 or later.  If the project
followed a more open development model, had public CVS and developmental
mailing lists, and the license was true open source, and the code sane,
then feature requests like this could be more manageable.

Unfortunately, this isn't the case currently.  Sorry.

Comment 2 Nathan G. Grennan 2002-07-24 19:22:24 UTC
Sounds like a search for a new imap server suite is definitely in order then :\

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-07-25 09:13:20 UTC
Well, if the patched UW imap server works for you, you can just use that
if you like.  If you need to find some other software that does the job,
then perhaps the dracd support wouldn't have been an acceptable solution
if it were included with Red Hat Linux anyway.

Some other possible imap servers that are available that may or may not
do what you want include:  cyrus-imap, courier-imap

Probably others out there as well.  I'd love nothing more than to ditch
UW imap from the distro and replace it with something else.  Not as
easy to do that though as one might think.


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