From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Prefer AUTH=CRAM-MD5 makes login fail in some IMAP servers.
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:29:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxmsrb2l.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739ozvyn8.fsf@babel.ls.fi.upm.es>
egallego@babel.ls.fi.upm.es (Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias) writes:
> Well, I've edebugged nnimap-login and double checked with wireshark and
> thunderbird and indeed it seems that CRAM-MD5 auth is completely broken
> in that weird server. However years ago it used to work.
If it is just your particular server that has this problem, then I guess
this isn't a Gnus problem. However, if it's a common bug in some IMAP
servers, perhaps Gnus should default to using LOGIN, which is faster
than CRAM-MD5 (one less round trip to the server), and is probably
tested a lot more than CRAM-MD5.
The drawback is that if you're talking to your IMAP server over a plain
network connection (boo!) to a server that doesn't support STARTTLS
(boo!), but the server has both CRAM-MD5 and LOGIN enabled, then your
passwords will be transferred unencrypted (boo!).
nnimap could default to using CRAM-MD5 in that particular case, but then
we're kinda into a very special case, and if CRAM-MD5 is buggy, then
some people will be affected anyway...
What do all y'all think?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-22 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-10 18:21 Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2011-01-11 18:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-11 21:52 ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2011-01-11 21:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-11 22:55 ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2011-01-22 19:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-01-24 17:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 22:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 22:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 22:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-25 17:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-25 21:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-25 22:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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