What to use when no AUTH=

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Patrick Welche wrote:

> When connecting to imap servers with sasl, I thought the plan was to
> parse the capability string and add any AUTH= to the mechlist. This
> was fine for cyrus :) and UW, but pointing my code at Courier, I
> get
>
> S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT
> ...
>
> Now, I am missing something, because cyrus' imtest connects with no problem.
> What mechanism is it using? What is the right thing to do?

Since I've heard bad things about Courier's standards complicance, I
can't advocate its use in any way.

In this case, though, you have to use the plaintext IMAP LOGIN command
(doesn't imtest show what its doing as you log in?).

-Rob

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