fetchmail-devel

[fetchmail-devel] SASL PLAIN support

[Petri A. <pa...@sc...>]

This is more user question than developer, but technical so sent it to
devel list:

I cant find anything about SASL PLAIN authentication method from
fetchmail man pages. I also tried to search sourcecode but cant find
anything.
Is there "SASL PLAIN" authentication support in fetchmail?
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4616.txt)

That would be nice and relly _usefull_ to include it. Some times (pop3)
servers are configured to accept only SASL PLAIN and prevent USER/PASS
authentication.

Cheers,

Petri Asikainen

Re: [fetchmail-devel] SASL PLAIN support

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Petri Asikainen schrieb am 2007-10-13:

> This is more user question than developer, but technical so sent it to
> devel list:
> 
> I cant find anything about SASL PLAIN authentication method from
> fetchmail man pages. I also tried to search sourcecode but cant find
> anything.
> Is there "SASL PLAIN" authentication support in fetchmail?
> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4616.txt)

Not at the moment - sorry.

I'm considering libgsasl support for the next major release though, but
that's unlikely to happen before well into 2008 as it requires major
internal restructuring and re-design of some parts of the system (unless
a full rewrite from scratch turns out to be less work that is).

A few daring and skilled programmers might speed things up though if a
good team effort can be achieved and they are willing to join an initial
planning phase.

I might talk about the plans a bit if there's sufficient interest.

> That would be nice and relly _usefull_ to include it. Some times (pop3)
> servers are configured to accept only SASL PLAIN and prevent USER/PASS
> authentication.

Not your responsibility, but: What advantage does SASL PLAIN have over
USER/PASS? I see none, so who configures POP3 servers that way and why?

Best regards

-- 
Matthias Andree

Re: [fetchmail-devel] SASL PLAIN support

[Petri A. <pa...@sc...>]

I only write some php/shell/whatever scripts so I cant help you with
libgsasl, sorry. hope you find programmers for sasl-project.

> >
> > Not your responsibility, but: What advantage does SASL PLAIN have over
> > USER/PASS? I see none, so who configures POP3 servers that way and why?
> >

I agree, but I cant configure servers out there.  ;)

Thanks for information and specialy maintaining this usefull tool for us,

Petri