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Author: Fred Viles
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Subject: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?
On 1 Aug 2005 at 10:23, Marc Perkel wrote about
    "Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authent":


| What I'm thinking is to access port 143 directly. Do an IMAP login and
| if it succeeds then you disconect from imap and accept the email.

FYI, it wouldn't work with CRAM-MD5 or other one-way-hash SASL
mechanisms. The password would not be available for exim to pass to
the IMAP server.

- Fred






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