Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:57:04 -0400 From: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> To: Johan Paul <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auth fails partly for imap Message-ID: <F757947A-C04A-11D7-88EB-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <3F23EBE3.8060701@johanpaul.com>
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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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