Net::IMAP - Support for 'plain' authentication?

Ruby
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Hi everyone,

Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?

Thanks,

Sean

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On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:24:44AM +0900, Sean H. wrote:

Hi everyone,

Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?

Take a look at <raa.ruby-lang.org/cache/imap-backend/imap-backend.rb>
for a PLAIN authenticator.

Steve P.
[email protected]

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Interesting…I’ll give it a try. Not much documentation, though.

When I requre the file and run my script (no other modifications), I get
this:

rmail IMAP backend
Starting…
…creating IMAP session service…
…creating watchdog thread…
…starting DRb server…
…started on druby://localhost:31382…
…done.

Until I Ctrl-C and it moves on. After that, I get other IMAP errors I
can likely deal with. How do I stop DRB from running?

Thank you!

Sean

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Sean H. wrote:

Hi everyone,

Our IMAP server here is configured to support only the PLAIN
authentication mechanism, but not LOGIN or CRAM_MD5. Before I
approach our mail admin about opening up another auth mech, is there
another library or add-on to Net::IMAP that supports PLAIN?

Try IMAP#login instead of IMAP#authenticate, this uses a different
authentication method. It works with my Dovecot server although Dovecot
doesn’t support LOGIN authentication.

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stick with net::imap. less to install and it’s a really lovely
library (I know MTAs that were harder to use than irb and Net::IMAP).

(no offence to imap-backend)

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Oh, wow, it works. That’s amazing.

Does anyone have any thoughts on whether or not this method is better
than using imap-backend? They both work, but I’m afraid of the
overhead and uncertainty of a codebase that’s at 0.1 and has no
homepage or documentation.

Thanks!

Sean