Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 03:09, Matthew Reimer wrote:

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I wasn't able to get DIGEST-MD5 authentication working with passwords stored as plaintext until I tweaked password_generate() to make it not use the domain portion of user@domain.com as the realm. Both evolution and kmail send the email address as the username with no realm; when dovecot tries to convert the username to user + realm, the hash is different and so DIGEST-MD5 authentication fails. Having password_generate() hash user@domain.com::password instead of user:domain.com:password fixes it. I need this to work because I need to support all of PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5 at the same time.

Timo, do you think this is a proper fix, or are kmail and evolution broken?

Well .. Looks like most clients don't actually use realms, but I rather wouldn't completely drop support for them which your change would do.

Correct fix would be to separate realm and "@domain" handling in code, that should work with both cases. I'll see if I can get that done.

Thanks Timo. Send me a patch when you're done and I'll test it.

Matt