And upon Wednesday of July 11, the illustrious Ken Murchison spake thusly...
> Cillian Sharkey wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Jul  9 23:36:35 shnarf imapd[4912]: badlogin:
> > > shnarf.axcelerant.com[192.168.240.66] PLAIN no mechanism available
> > 
> > Currently, the PLAIN auth mechanism only becomes available when the session is
> > encrypted (i.e. over SSL/TLS) - hence the error "no mechanism available". The
> > first password prompt above is from sasl.
> > 
> > cyradm then falls back to the IMAP LOGIN method and it prompts for a password
> > as below:
> 
> Try removing (or commenting out) the following line in IMAP.pm (should
> be #195):
> 
> $opts{-mechanism} .= 'PLAIN';
> 
> This solves the problem described above.  I'm making sure that this
> doesn't screw something else up before I commit the fix to CVS.
> 

  Excellent!  Works like a charm - thanks!

  I'll do some monitoring and general tweaking around as well, and
  let you know if I should happen to come across any ill side-affects
  resulting from the above fix.


Beers,

Corey



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