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