Am Donnerstag 12 Mai 2011, 18:34:02 schrieb Yu Meng Chong:

----- "Cristian Rodríguez" wrote:

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they key here is "LOGINDISABLED"

"LOGINDISABLED is an IMAP extension which means: The server is configured to reject plaintext login. The client has to use either TLS or a challenge/response mechanism such as CRAM-MD5."

Enabling plaintext login or using CRAM-MD5 is a really bad idea, and your server does not seems to expose capability STARTTLS.

Hi Cristian,

Well, this IMAP server is not meant for production use. I'm just learning how IMAP works and specifically, how Cyrus is configured. So far, it's been slow-going but interesting.

I'm still very much a newbie to this, which is why I wanted to start with the simplest configuration possible. I have Cyrus IMAP authenticating against SASLDB (instead of MySQL or saslauthd) and just one user. If you want to use SASL, you can't use the IMAP "login" command. That is only for plaintext authentication.

I want to test autocreation of folders which is supposed to happen when a IMAP session is started by the user. Why do you need to use telnet for that. I think imtest has every thing you need to do a successful SASL authentication.

Is there a way to specify during the telnet session, not to use LOGIN but DIGEST-MD5 instead? There certainly is, but you'd somehow have to do the SASL Handshake for DIGEST-MD5 (which IIRC involves some base64 trickery and md5 hashing) yourself (or with the help of cyrus_sasl_sample_client/-server). I'd rather use imtest instead of telnet.

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