2.2.13 authentication problems?

[Wesley Craig]

On 15 Aug 2008, at 15:54, Michael Loftis wrote:
> Can you point me to any code lines so maybe I can start looking?   
> Might be it's just not causing a core dump in my version but it's  
> still causing auth issues "somehow".

The bug I'm thinking of was introduced in 2.3, so it won't be the  
same.  But looking over imap/backend.c is probably worth the effort.   
You can also introduce some logging, if you don't want to bother with  
SSL decryption.

>> "allowplaintext: yes" doesn't work for you?  I never ran 2.1, and  
>> haven't
>> run 2.2 in years, so maybe that option is newer....
>
> Nope, never did as far as I know.  It'll allow PLAIN but *ONLY* in  
> conjunction with TLS or SSL.  Otherwise it won't present the  
> mechanism and will refuse it if tried.  It *WILL* work with IMAP  
> LOGIN or POP3 USER+PASS commands w/o TLS/SSL though.  W/o that  
> PLAIN won't be accepted at all. Atleast this is the behavior I've  
> observed in 2.2 and 2.1.

Hm, you might try examining the SASL secprops, of both the client  
(proxyd) and the server (the backend).

:wes