Re: libetpan and SASL

On 7/30/07, Horia Olaru <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the information. Just to be sure I got it clearly. I want to
> use pop3 and imap from the driver level and want to use SASL. Let's take the
> pop3 (because imap is analogous from what I've seen):
>
>  pop3_mailstorage_init calls pop3_mailstorage_init_sasl with NULL arguments
> for sasl authentication and thus falls back to plaintext. In order to use
> SASL authentication I should call pop3_mailstorage_init_sasl direcly
> providing the argumets for the SASL authentication myself. Am I correct in
> assuming this? If so, then it should be the same for imap.
>
> Also, you said that, in terms of SASL, libetpan supports whatever Cyrus-SASL
> supports. In the pop3driver_types.h as well as in imapdriver_types.h at
> driver level, there are two enums with POP3_AUTH_TYPE_ and respectively
> IMAP_AUTH_TYPE_ which contain varous types of SASL authentication.

Those are deprecated. I should document this in the headers.
Use plain text or whatever value. That was there before really
implementing SASL.

> I would
> like to point out to you that among these types there is none corresponding
> NTLM which according to the Cyrus-SASL website is supported by their
> library. This is just one example and there may also be various other
> supporte authentication types I have not mentioned here that are not
> included in the enums. From what I can tell, either I am not using the
> correct enums for auth types or these need revising. Of course I am talking
> strictly of the version of libetpan 0.49 and in more recent source files,
> this may not be the case.

You have to use a string to describe SASL authentication mechanism.

-- 
DINH Viêt Hoà

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.
Still grepping through log files to find problems?  Stop.
Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser.
Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >>  http://get.splunk.com/