Re: Allow plaintext and TLS

From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 10:56:48 EDT

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    Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
    > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 09:48 -0500, Richard Wohlstadter wrote:
    >> Nikola Milutinovic wrote:
    >>> 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.
    >> We use Thunderbird 1.5 and it does not work(bug) with regards to TLS and
    >> connecting to Cyrus so we currently use SSL as well. I just tested the
    >> latest build of Thunderbird (Version 3 Alpha 1) and the TLS to cyrus
    >> works fine. Looks like you need to wait for the next stable release of
    >> Thunderbird or use the alpha.
    >
    > I'd just like to confirm that Thunderbird 1.5 is broken. we refuse
    > logins until after STARTTLS, but Thunderbird considers that the
    > capability "LOGINDISABLED" means "login is disabled", not "the protocol
    > command LOGIN is disabled", so it will pop up a message about the server
    > not currently accepting logins and refuse to work.
    >
    > if we remove LOGINDISABLED from the capability response, it will happily
    > try to authenticate _before_ STARTTLS, thereby sending the password in
    > the clear... it's amazing they could break IMAP this badly.

    Hmm. I'm running Thunderbird on my local dev box (Cyrus 2.3 CVS) with
    allowplaintext:0 and its behaves just fine.

    -- 
    Kenneth Murchison
    Systems Programmer
    Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
    Carnegie Mellon University
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