[Evolution] IMAP or POP3 accounts

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

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On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:38 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:53 +0200, nick galea wrote:=20
> > Hi,
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> > I am considering replacing Outlook on our network (approximately 100=20
> > clients) with evolution.
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> > However, i have a number of questions regarding the central management=20
> > of Evolution IMAP and POP3 account data for each user in a network:
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> > 1. The windows logon provides a single sign on for both windows and=20
> > outlook. Meaning that when a user changes his/her password in windows=20
> > this is automatic for outlook too. Is it possible to achieve a similar=20
> > thing using Evolution and active directory?
> > 2. If this is not possible with active directory then would it be=20
> > possible using Novell Edirectory? I.e if i would move from active=20
> > directory to novell edirectory for signing on, is there somehow an=20
> > integration between Evolution and edirectory which would obsolete the=20
> > need for the user to regularly change his IMAP or POP3 passwords even i=
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> > he changes his windows or edirectory logon?
> Well you could change the system login and imap server/pop3 password
> using these sort of mechanisms, but that is independent of evolution.
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> It wouldn't automatically change the user's 'remembered' password in
> Evolution though.  Which may or may not be an issue (e.g. if you don't
> want users remembering their passwords), but they will be re-prompted.
> True single-signon would require the use of kerberos stuff as Jeff
> mentioned.  Actually letting the users remember their password in such
> a context isn't particularly secure, since they are only stored on
> disk obfuscated and not encrypted and only relies on (enforced) unix
> filesystem permissions for security.
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> > If both are not available, does anyone know whether Novell is working o=
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> > such an integration? Surely this would make sense for both Evolution an=
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> > Edirectory users and since both are owned by Novell....
> There is work going on in the identity management/systems management
> area, and some of it relates to Evolution (specifically to configuring
> and locking down settings), but we are not directly party to this
> work.  So I don't know the full scope of it.
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> I agree this makes absolute sense.  And I would be quite surprised if
> it isn't on some roadmap somewhere.=20
> > And if not, does anyone know if this would be relatively easily=20
> > developed for Evolution? If there is demand from other users too i woul=
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> > consider developing such an add-on module.
> Well one thing we have on our roadmap is integration with the gnome-
> key-ring thing, or whatever its called, which provides some
> centralised auth system, so i've heard.  I don't really know much
> about it, but assuming it is extensible, it sounds like the approach
> that will lead to this goal ... eventually ... when its done.

as far as I understand it, gnome-key-ring is basically just e-passwords
- e.g. it stores application passwords in a central location for apps to
query.

might keep the passwords encrypted on disc rather than just obfuscated
like we do currently, but I don't really know the details myself.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
fejj@ximian.com  - www.novell.com

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