IMSP and Digest-MD5

Cyrus Daboo daboo at cyrusoft.com
Tue Feb 17 11:51:07 EST 2004


Hi Rob,

--On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:48 AM -0500 Rob Siemborski 
<rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

|> Wouldn't it be better if this were filed as a bug with CMU and get the
|> service name changed in the server sources? That, to me, would seem to be
|> the better way to handle this going forward, since imap and imsp are two
|> different services.
|
| That's the problem with a lack of standardization of this protocol.
|
| Unfortuinately, *all* of the deployment is using "imap" as the service
| name.  Changing this now will break *all* deployed software.
|
| I'm not about to do that.  At best, it could be made a config option.

Agreed - I would rather fix Mulberry to be consistent with the other 
authenticators we support that do use 'imap' rather than 'imsp'. However, 
if a change to the server were to be made, perhaps it could be set to 
accept either 'imap' or 'imsp'? Or would that be too hard to do within the 
constraints of SASL lib?


-- 
Cyrus Daboo




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