Closed
Bug 202655
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
Need support for SASL authentication for IMAP
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: jamesrome, Assigned: Bienvenu)
Details
Many IMAP servers (mine included) cannot support SSL for IMAP, but can support things like CRAM-MD5 for secure authentication. Mozilla needs to embrace these other secure forms of authentication.
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Comment 1•21 years ago
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Mozilla supports CRAM-MD5 as of a couple weeks ago. There's a bug open about supporting CRAM-DIGEST as well. Is there anything else that you can think of?
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Comment 2•21 years ago
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Wonderful. But it is quite unobvious as to how to use it. The IMAP dialog in the 4/17 build only haas SSL for IMAP.
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Comment 3•21 years ago
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I sniffed my conversation with the IMAP server, and indeed it seems to be automatic! Way to go Mozilla folks!
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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Comment 4•21 years ago
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yes, it's automatic.
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Comment 5•21 years ago
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I do have a request for an enhancement on this fix. I think it is important to let the user know that his IMAP password is being transmitted encrypted, so some sort of icon should appear when this happens, or not.
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Comment 6•21 years ago
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Maybe I made a Chinese wish and got what I asked for, but didn't really want. With the 2003042908 build, every time I access my secure POP server, I get a message that the CRAM-MD5 authentication failed. Since it is POP over SSL, CRAM-MD5 really isn't needed. But I like the idea of the message when they do support CRAM-MD5, and it failed. So, we need a way to indicate whether the server does CRAM-MD5 in the Server Settings pane. If it doesn;t do it, the user could indicate that, and the error messages would be supressed.
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Comment 7•21 years ago
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tomorrow's build with work with CRAM-MD5
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•15 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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