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

LeVA leva at az.isten.hu
Sun Oct 15 14:16:52 UTC 2006


2006. October 15. 15:08, Timo Sirainen:
> 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.
So now what would be helpful? An ethereal (wireshark) log of the 
conversation?

Daniel

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LeVA


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