Murder and POP3

[Igor Brezac]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Andreas S. Kerber wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:02:36PM +0100, Andreas S. Kerber wrote:
> >
> >>Yes the "test" User has a mailbox on the backend and it is possible
> >>login as the "test" User on the backend, without any problems. Accessing
> >>the INBOX via IMAP works too (I've used mutt). Here is the output
> >>from the "SELECT" via imtest.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > JFI I've just found what the problem with Murder+POP3 and IMAP 2.1.16
> > was.
> >
> > <hostname>_mechs: (which is documented in 2.2-BETA), needed to be set
> > on the frontend. If it is not set, IMAP works (it used DIGEST-MD5 to talk to the
> > backend) but POP3 immediatly failed after the user authenticatet on the frontend.
> >
> > The murder works fine now :-)
> >
> > Is anybody using 2.2-BETA in a production environment or is it currently
> > better to use 2.1.16 (with skiplist)?
>
> I've been running 2.2 on my production box since I started working on
> 2.2, without any problems.  I know some others on th elist apparently
> are running it too.  CMU is going to move to 2.2 over the winter break.
>

Same here.  I've used 2.2 in several production environments before alpha
version was released without any problems, although I am not using murder.

-- 
Igor