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Net::IMAP - Support for 'plain' authentication?

Sean Hussey

3/8/2006 3:25:00 PM

Hi everyone,

Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?

Thanks,

Sean
5 Answers

Steve Peters

3/8/2006 3:48:00 PM

0

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:24:44AM +0900, Sean Hussey wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
> authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
> approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
> another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?

Take a look at <raa.ruby-lang.org/cache/imap-backend/imap-backend.rb>
for a PLAIN authenticator.

Steve Peters
steve@fisharerojo.org

Sean Hussey

3/8/2006 4:08:00 PM

0

Interesting...I'll give it a try. Not much documentation, though.

When I requre the file and run my script (no other modifications), I get this:

rmail IMAP backend
Starting...
...creating IMAP session service...
...creating watchdog thread...
...starting DRb server...
...started on druby://localhost:31382...
...done.


Until I Ctrl-C and it moves on. After that, I get other IMAP errors I
can likely deal with. How do I stop DRB from running?

Thank you!

Sean

On 3/8/06, Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:24:44AM +0900, Sean Hussey wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
> > authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
> > approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
> > another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?
>
> Take a look at <raa.ruby-lang.org/cache/imap-backend/imap-backend.rb>
> for a PLAIN authenticator.
>
> Steve Peters
> steve@fisharerojo.org
>
>
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Andreas S.

3/8/2006 5:13:00 PM

0

Sean Hussey wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
> authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
> approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
> another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?

Try IMAP#login instead of IMAP#authenticate, this uses a different
authentication method. It works with my Dovecot server although Dovecot
doesn't support LOGIN authentication.

--
Posted via http://www.ruby-....

Sean Hussey

3/8/2006 7:33:00 PM

0

Oh, wow, it works. That's amazing.

Does anyone have any thoughts on whether or not this method is better
than using imap-backend? They both work, but I'm afraid of the
overhead and uncertainty of a codebase that's at 0.1 and has no
homepage or documentation.

Thanks!

Sean

On 3/8/06, Andreas S. <f@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> Sean Hussey wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
> > authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
> > approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
> > another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?
>
> Try IMAP#login instead of IMAP#authenticate, this uses a different
> authentication method. It works with my Dovecot server although Dovecot
> doesn't support LOGIN authentication.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-....
>
>

Dick Davies

3/10/2006 11:52:00 AM

0

stick with net::imap. less to install and it's a really lovely
library (I know MTAs that were harder to use than irb and Net::IMAP).

(no offence to imap-backend)

On 08/03/06, Sean Hussey <seanhussey@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, wow, it works. That's amazing.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on whether or not this method is better
> than using imap-backend? They both work, but I'm afraid of the
> overhead and uncertainty of a codebase that's at 0.1 and has no
> homepage or documentation.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sean
>
> On 3/8/06, Andreas S. <f@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> > Sean Hussey wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
> > > authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
> > > approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
> > > another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?
> >
> > Try IMAP#login instead of IMAP#authenticate, this uses a different
> > authentication method. It works with my Dovecot server although Dovecot
> > doesn't support LOGIN authentication.
> >
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-....
> >
> >
>
>


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