Re: GNU JavaMail CRAM-MD5 Support

Jos Collin-ERS,HCLTech wrote:
> I'm using GNU JavaMail in my program. I'm using a PLAIN SMTP =
Authentication right now. But my SMTP server is configured to use =
CRAM-MD5. So I want to know whether GNU JavaMail supports CRAM-MD5 =
authentication for SMTP.

Yes it does.

If for some reason it keeps falling back to PLAIN, it may be that the =
server is presenting the authentication mechanisms in the "wrong" order. =
You can override the order in which authentication mechanisms are =
attempted by the client by setting the mail.smtp.auth.mechanisms session =
property (e.g. "mail.smtp.auth.mechanisms=3DCRAM-MD5,PLAIN,LOGIN"), see =
the SMTP provider package JavaDoc for more information.
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Chris Burdess