Auth fails partly for imap

[Lucas Holt]

Historically, Netscape has not supported encrypted (even if it is weak) 
authentication for imap and pop3.  Slowly, they add standards as people 
complain.  I'm sure the mozilla project is no different.  I know for a 
fact that early builds of mozilla did not support cram md5.

Basically, webmail and mozilla are sending clear text authentication.  
Pine is a bit smarter and uses cram md5.  Look through the pine 
preferences and see if you can downgrade it to clear text.  If not, 
there is probably a compile option to use cleartext.  (thats how they 
do it in imapd at least)

On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 11:12  AM, Johan Paul wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> What have I done wrong when I can log into my IMAP account 
> (cyrus-imapd-2.0.17) via Mozilla and web mail (Squirrelmail) but Pine 
> doesn't allow me to log in? I use PAM with MySQL authentication. This 
> is what I get to my log file (first when I log into with Mozilla from 
> a remote client, then Pine locally):
>
> -- 8< --
> Jul 27 18:04:27 silakka imapd[5665]: login: my.computer.foo[x.x.x.x] 
> kypeli plaintext
>
> Jul 27 18:05:09 silakka imapd[5685]: badlogin: 
> localhost.computer.foo[127.0.0.1] CRAM-MD5 authentication failure [no 
> secret in database]
> -- 8< --
>
> Why does Pine try to use CRAM-MD5 but Mozilla doesn't? I have 
> {localhost:143}inbox in Pine in inbox-path.
>
> Running FreeBSD 4.8.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Johan Paul
>
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