[Dovecot] [Help] How get the complete CAPABILITY list?

[jsiegle at psu.edu]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Michael M. Slusarz wrote:

> Quoting tao.6.yang at nokia.com:
>
>> A Login user1 <user1's pwd>
>> A CAPABILITY
>> 
>> I expect to get the list that contains the following -
>> AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
>> 
>> But actually I did not get the above content, I only get a short list
>> as below,
>> 
>> CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL -IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND
>> UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS
>> A OK Capability completed
>> 
>> Why did I miss the AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5??
>
> Once you login, the list of available authentication methods is irrelevant. 
> The RFC allows the CAPABILITY string to be different in unauthenticated vs. 
> authenticated state.
>
> michael
>
You can override the CAPABILITY line after login by modifying 
imap_capability in dovecot.conf. Whatever you put for that variable is 
what you will see after login.

-Jonathan
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