Re: Falling back to LOGIN from AUTH?

Tim Mooney <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:28:57 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In regard to: [Imap-uw] Falling back to LOGIN from AUTH?, Robert Raschke...:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having to deal with a IMAP proxy called Perdition and it appears to
> advertise AUTH=PLAIN as a default capability, but in fact does not support
> any AUTH method at all, just LOGIN.
>
> Now, I'm getting told that "everyone else appears to handle falling back to
> LOGIN method", so I should do the same. I'm still pushing to get AUTH=PLAIN
> removed from the capa list, but in the meantime ...

Isn't it just configured with imap_capability in the perdition.conf?
Something like

imap_capability IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ LOGIN

should do what you want, I would think.

Tim