From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 09:21:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1E437B401 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.mcgill.ca (mail.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.51.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE2643F3F for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca) Received: from cnoc.cs.mcgill.ca (cnoc.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by mail.cs.mcgill.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817EC2F8C5 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:21:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cnoc.cs.mcgill.ca (Postfix, from userid 2968) id DBC902EDF; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:20:46 -0400 From: Andrew BOGECHO To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030727162046.GC11873@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <3F23EBE3.8060701@johanpaul.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Subject: Re: Auth fails partly for imap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:21:28 -0000 Sun Jul 27 12:18:29 EDT 2003 Hi, We use plaintext over SSL. For pine to work we add the following line in the pine.conf disable-these-authenticators=CRAM-MD5 Hope that helps. Use with care over insecure connections. Andrew. On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: > Historically, Netscape has not supported encrypted (even if it is weak) > authentication for imap and pop3. Slowly, they add standards as people > complain. I'm sure the mozilla project is no different. I know for a > fact that early builds of mozilla did not support cram md5. > > Basically, webmail and mozilla are sending clear text authentication. > Pine is a bit smarter and uses cram md5. Look through the pine > preferences and see if you can downgrade it to clear text. If not, > there is probably a compile option to use cleartext. (thats how they > do it in imapd at least) > > On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 11:12 AM, Johan Paul wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >What have I done wrong when I can log into my IMAP account > >(cyrus-imapd-2.0.17) via Mozilla and web mail (Squirrelmail) but Pine > >doesn't allow me to log in? I use PAM with MySQL authentication. This > >is what I get to my log file (first when I log into with Mozilla from > >a remote client, then Pine locally): > > > >-- 8< -- > >Jul 27 18:04:27 silakka imapd[5665]: login: my.computer.foo[x.x.x.x] > >kypeli plaintext > > > >Jul 27 18:05:09 silakka imapd[5685]: badlogin: > >localhost.computer.foo[127.0.0.1] CRAM-MD5 authentication failure [no > >secret in database] > >-- 8< -- > > > >Why does Pine try to use CRAM-MD5 but Mozilla doesn't? I have > >{localhost:143}inbox in Pine in inbox-path. > > > >Running FreeBSD 4.8. > > > > > >Regards, > > > >Johan Paul > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > Lucas Holt > Luke@FoolishGames.com > ________________________________________________________ > FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) > JustJournal.com (Free blogging) > > "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and > I'm not sure about the former." > - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >