Unfortunately for me, I think that my client (the Mail::IMAPClient perl module) only supports LOGIN.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Siemborski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ian McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 7:45 PM Subject: Re: Preserving flags, and their global nature > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ian McDonald wrote: > > > So central is this requirement to my helpdesk application, that I'm > > considering storing all the passwords in plain text in order to do just that > > :( :( :(. > > Administrative users can authorize as any user they want without needing > the user's password (sort of like root can su to whatever userid it > wants). > > You just need a SASL mechanism that supports authorization (basically, all > of them except LOGIN and CRAM-MD5). > > -Rob >