I just successfully got Eudora to negotiate TLS with Cyrus. This applies
to Eudora 5.1.
A log extract which shows that I was able to connect in TLS is below ---
you will have to trust me that I did it from Eudora. The way to accomplish
this is to stop Eudora, and using an editor like emacs or notepad, edit the
eudora.ini file. In the [Settings] part of the file, find a entry labeled
"SSLReceiveVersion" If it is there, change the value specified to 0. If
it is not there, add a line reading
SSLReceiveVersion=0
Then start Eudora again.
This parameter defaults to 6, which allows SSL Version 3 only. A setting
of 0 allows any of the settings it will speak. 7 forces TLS 1.0, other
settings force various other combinations. But 0 makes Eudora permissive
and allows it to speak what the other end wants to speak, thus allowing it
to use TLS version 1.0. Why Eudora decided to make this parameter default
to 6, I have no idea. I believe that this will allow Eudora 5.1 to talk to
an unmodified Cyrus.
The FAQ should probably be changed to mention this parameter -- and maybe
when people contact Eudora it should be to ask that the parameter be changed.
Sep 27 22:37:40 parrot master[30495]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd
Sep 27 22:37:40 parrot service-imaps[30495]: executed
Sep 27 22:37:40 parrot imapd[30495]: accepted connection
Sep 27 22:37:44 parrot imapd[30495]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher
DES-CBC3-SHA (1
68/168 bits) no authentication
Sep 27 22:37:45 parrot imapd[30495]: login:
glock.squawk.com[208.176.124.157] ni
ck CRAM-MD5+TLS User logged in
Sep 27 22:37:45 parrot imapd[30495]: seen_db: user nick opened
/var/imap/user/n/
nick.seen
Sep 27 22:37:45 parrot imapd[30495]: open: user nick opened INBOX
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affliction, such as the Black Plague or famine.The fact is that war is not
just something that happens, it is something that people make happen, and
they make it happen for reasons. As Clausewitz said, war is the continuation
of politics by other means. Exactly. War is neither a hurricane nor a flood.
It is, on the contrary, the cutting edge of ideology.
-- Jeff Cooper
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