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Date:      Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:08:22 +0100
From:      Volker Kindermann <ml@ps102.de>
To:        Andrew Konstantinov <andrei@kableu.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with CRAM-MD5 authentication in evolution
Message-ID:  <41EA3D16.9040207@ps102.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050116040753.GA1142@warrior.kableu.com>
References:  <20050116040753.GA1142@warrior.kableu.com>

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Hi Andrew,


> This might sound a bit silly, but I can't figure out how to force evolution to
> use CRAM-MD5 authentication instead of plain text password. Whenever I choose
> CRAM-MD5 as authentication method in the evolution settings and click "OK", the
> changes apparently are lost because even if I go back to that menu a second
> later, it has plain password authentication instead of CRAM-MD5. This is
> something specifically related to the port of evolution to freebsd as evolution
> on linux, mutt on freebsd and thunderbird on windows all work perfectly fine
> with CRAM-MD5 authentication.

no answer to your question, but I'm using CRAM-MD5 for sending mails to 
a sasl enabled MTA-Server and it works fine.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD ariel.office.volker.de 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 
  7 15:49:00 CET 2005 
root@ariel.office.volker.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARIEL  i386

$ pkg_info|grep evolution
evolution-2.0.3     An integrated mail, calendar and address book 
distributed s

Are you trying to use it for sending email or for receiving email? Ah, 
one more thing: I disabled plain-text authentication on the MTA-Server.


  -volker



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