19 Sep
2005
19 Sep
'05
9 p.m.
Steve [Dovecot] wrote:
Ah, ha... I'd assumed that 'LOGIN' as the authentication method for Ruby's Net::IMAP was synonymous with 'PLAIN' authentication. I'm using dovecot 0.99.14-r1 under Gentoo and I note that auth.txt makes no mention of a 'LOGIN' authentication mechanism.
PLAIN and LOGIN are two different ways to pass username and password in plaintext (well, base-64 encoded but not encrypted in any way). LOGIN was invented for the Cyrus mail server (and they don't even use it any longer), so it isn't surprising that it wasn't mentioned.
HTH
John
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