Re: Allow plaintext and TLS

From: Patrick H Radtke (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 10:08:28 EDT

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    On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Nikola Milutinovic wrote:

    > Hi all.
    >
    > It looks like I've hit a minor bug in Cyrus. It has to do with "allowplaintext"
    > option.
    >
    > I have set this option to "no". When I setup my client (Thunderbird) to use TLS
    > and PLAIN, it says "Server refused... blah, blah". When I set it to use SSL and
    > PLAIN, I can login.
    >
    >> From this I can only conclude that the server is not advertising AUTH=PLAIN if
    > the connection is over TLS, while it is advertizing it over SSL. I'd say this
    > is a bug, since TLS does/should provide SSF=256.
    >
    > If I understand correctly, SSL is a SSL wrapper over the connection and it gets
    > established BEFORE IMAP connection is established. TLS, on the other hand, is
    > initiated within an established IMAP connection. I'd say TLS code is forgetting
    > to raise SSF to 256, upon successful establishing of encrypted communication.
    >
    > Nix.
    >

    It works for us.

    Have you tried imtest?

    imtest -m PLAIN -t "" hostname

    This should do a CAPABILITY call, AUTH=PLAIN won't be advertised, and then
    it should to a STARTTLS and then another CAPABILITY call and AUTH=PLAIN
    will now be advertised since the connection is secure.

    -Partick

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