Re: Apple Mail and AUTHENTICATE PLAIN

Sorry about the previous mail, this keyboard is in need of serious
spanking or a bath in nitric acid...

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:44:39 +0200 Jernej Porenta wrote:

> > 
> > This is rather strange, because we fixed that problem by removing
> > AUTH=PLAIN from the capabilities string, which had no place being
> > there in the first place (cut and paste from the dovecot
> > capabilities). Note that the apple mail client tries to use this even
> > when SASL itself was not announced, somebody taking mighty big
> > liberties with the RFC at apple there.
> > 
> > You will likely want to remove that AUTH=LOGIN capability and reload
> > perdition.
> > 
> > For what it's worth, this seems to work for us right now with a dovecot
> > 1.2 backend, note the absence of all AUTH bits:
> 
> Thank you for the hint. Did you experience any problems with the clients
> after removing AUTH values?
> 
Nope, all oranges and peaches from that point on.

> Our dovecot installation lists AUTH versions, that is why we are still
> sticking to it.
> * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT
> SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE
> CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC
> ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA
> AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN
> 

For the time being, get rid of all AUTH and SASL bits, I'd say.

Regards,

Christian
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Christian Balzer        Network/Systems Engineer                
[email protected]   	Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications
http://www.gol.com/
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