Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:20:46 -0400 From: Andrew BOGECHO <andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auth fails partly for imap Message-ID: <20030727162046.GC11873@cs.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <F757947A-C04A-11D7-88EB-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> References: <3F23EBE3.8060701@johanpaul.com> <F757947A-C04A-11D7-88EB-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com>
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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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