At 11:55 AM -0500 2/11/00, Dave Sill wrote:
>I'm having the same trouble with imap-4.5 (with David Harris' maildir
>patches) that I had with APOP: plaintext login authentication works
>fine, but CRAM-MD5 authentication fails every time.
>
>With APOP, the challenge/response are easy to calculate, e.g.:
>
> echo -n "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>apoptest"|md5
>
>where the message-ID-looking thing is the challenge, and "apoptest" is
>the password. But CRAM-MD5 does something different...some sort of
>"keyed md5".
>
>Anyone know how to manually generate the proper response?
>
>Anyone know if fetchmail does it right?
Yes, it does. I can log into courier-imap with it:
leprss% fetchmail -vv -c --protocol IMAP-CRAMMD5 mors.gsfc.nasa.gov
Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fetchmail: 5.2.0 querying mors.gsfc.nasa.gov (protocol IMAP-LOGIN) at
Fri, 11 Fe
b 2000 12:01:18 -0500 (EST)
fetchmail: IMAP< * OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-1999 Double Precision,
Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.
fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 NAMESPACE AUTH=CRAM-MD5
fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed
fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP4 rev 1
fetchmail: CRAM-MD5 authentication is supported
fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
fetchmail: IMAP< +
PDMwMjkxM0I4QjlDNEMyRDc3ODVDNjJBOTg2RjRFMjJBQG1vcnMuZ3NmYy5uY
XNhLmdvdj4=
fetchmail: decoded as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fetchmail: replying with schinder 4513b42652255597820d812cdfe3e0a5
fetchmail: IMAP> c2NoaW5kZXIgNDUxM2I0MjY1MjI1NTU5NzgyMGQ4MTJjZGZlM2UwYTU=
fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK LOGIN Ok.
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 EXAMINE INBOX
fetchmail: IMAP< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Recent)
fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] No permanent flags permitted
fetchmail: IMAP< * 10 EXISTS
fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 RECENT
fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 947781516]
fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-ONLY] Ok
10 messages (9 seen) for schinder at mors.gsfc.nasa.gov.
fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down
fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK LOGOUT completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
>
>Anyone using imap-4.5 with CRAM-MD5 successfully?
I'm using courier-imap with CRAM-MD5. Both fetchmail and MacOS
Eudora can log in.
>
>-Dave
--
Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
