[Dovecot] Auth Mechanism

[Tom Allison]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 07:33 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> 
>>Uh...
>>I'm trying to debug an application and keep running into this:
>>DEBUG: Sending: 1 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
>>DEBUG: Sent 25 bytes
>>DEBUG: Read: 1 NO Authentication failed: Unsupported authentication 
>>mechanism
>>DEBUG: Read: * BYE Disconnected for inactivity.
>>
>>So is this really asking for "digest-md5" or am I S.O.L?
> 
> 
> 0.99.x doesn't support CRAM-MD5 without patching it. And in any case you
> need to enable cram/digest before it can be used from auth_mechanisms
> setting.
> 
> That client shouldn't have even tried the AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 command
> if server didn't give AUTH=CRAM-MD5 capability..
> 

OK, so the client should have done a capability check first?
I'll have to ask about that one.