Auth fails partly for imap

[Andrew BOGECHO]

Sun Jul 27 12:18:29 EDT 2003

Hi,

We use plaintext over SSL. For pine to work we add the following line
in the pine.conf

disable-these-authenticators=CRAM-MD5

Hope that helps. Use with care over insecure connections.

Andrew.

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:
> 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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