IMAP and Shibboleth

[Dave Perry]

It seems tight that no one (other than Microsoft with OWA), that I know of, has written a webmail client that can connect to an inbox without needing the actual password. It's almost like there's a need for an IMAP or web service running on the email server that is trusted to access any inbox using 3rd party (i.e. shibboleth) authentication.

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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Cantor, Scott
Sent: 08 April 2014 15:09
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: IMAP and Shibboleth

On 4/8/14, 10:04 AM, "bruno.dawagne at student.unamur.be"
<bruno.dawagne at student.unamur.be> wrote:
>
>We're currently struggling to install some sort of web portal using 
>Shibboleth as login mechanism. Ideally, we would like to be able to 
>retrieve the user's e-mails without requiring any additional 
>configuration step from him. Is there any way to connect to an IMAP 
>server using Shibboleth ?

Not in practice, no. The IdP already supports the necessary profile to enable a client to do so, but there are no clients supporting the SASL mechanism I defined.

-- Scott


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