Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP direct…

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Autor: Marc Perkel
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?


Fred Viles wrote:

>On 1 Aug 2005 at 10:23, Marc Perkel wrote about
>    "Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authent":

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>| 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.
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>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.
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>- Fred
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Why wouldn't the password be available? If you are using SMTP-AUTH then
you are passing a username and password to authenticate with. So why not
take that username and password, pass it in to IMAP port 143 and see if
it validates? If so - then you allow the message to be sent.

Am I missing something? Seems really simple to me.

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