cyrus and APOP

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Sun Aug 14 14:11:14 EDT 2005


Derek Yarnell wrote:

> I am currenly using an application that can only talk APOP and need to 
> authenticate it to my cyrus install.
> 
> Now a regular pop login is working, but APOP is not working. I am getting,
> 
> Aug 12 14:52:52 cyrus pop3[18626]: badlogin: homsar.umiacs.umd.edu 
> [128.8.120.251] APOP (<1152002633.1123872769 at cyrus.umiacs.umd.edu>) 
> SASL(-13): user not found: could not find password
> 
> It is never getting to the saslauthd process when I debug it.

saslauthd is only used for plaintext logins (IMAP LOGIN, POP3 USER/PASS, 
  SASL PLAIN).  You need to have passwords in sasldb in order to use 
APOP or any of the non-plaintext SASL mechanisms.


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