[Dovecot] Auth Mechanism

Timo Sirainen
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:11:51 -0000

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 07:33 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Uh...
> I'm trying to debug an application and keep running into this:
> DEBUG: Sending: 1 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
> DEBUG: Sent 25 bytes
> DEBUG: Read: 1 NO Authentication failed: Unsupported authentication
> mechanism
> DEBUG: Read: * BYE Disconnected for inactivity.
>
> So is this really asking for "digest-md5" or am I S.O.L?

0.99.x doesn't support CRAM-MD5 without patching it. And in any case you
need to enable cram/digest before it can be used from auth_mechanisms
setting.

That client shouldn't have even tried the AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 command
if server didn't give AUTH=CRAM-MD5 capability..

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