[Dovecot] failed authentication with digest-md5 (rc9)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 15 14:08:29 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 14:42 +0200, LeVA wrote:
> > 12:45:11 Info: auth(default): digest-md5(?,<rip>): Unknown QoP value

This patch makes it also print what value was sent:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-October/006552.html

> Would someone at least tell me what is this message mean, please? What 
> is a QoP value?
..
> > Using KMail 1.9.4.

It most likely means that KMail is broken, or possibly also a bug in
Dovecot. In any case what it means is that Dovecot announces that it
supports "auth" QoP (Quality of Protection). KMail is supposed to reply
back that it wants to use "auth" QoP, but it replies with something
else.

Maybe what happened is that KMail developers added support for other
QoPs also but forgot to add a check to see if the server supported them.
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