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2015 Feb 25
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Proxying of non "plain" SASL mechnisms.
..." password. Of course, having the plaintext password the proxy could in principle do other challenge/response SASL handshakes with the target backend, but right now only LOGIN and PLAIN is implemented. So I wondered about the rationale for not just forward the SASL handshake. - First, blindly forwardning will not do, since the mech data has to be decoded anyway to do any per/user passdb lookup (to, say, find the target host). But you don't need authentication to actually succeed to do that. You only need AuthZ-id or AuthN-id. - Secondly, the design of the interaction between imap-login proc...