I was trying out the Entourage "Always use secure password" options on my
IMAP account. The sending option (SMTP Auth) worked fine. However, when I
turned on "secure password" in the "Receiving Mail" advanced options, I got
an error as I logged into the account ("Command not recognized"/Command
invalid in this state"). I logged the IMAP stream between Enrage and the
IMAP server, and found that normally, Enrage sends the following IMAP
commands when it opens the connection:
CAPABILITY
LOGIN "name" "password"
LIST "" ""
With the "secure password" option on, the LOGIN should be replaced with an
"AUTHENTICATE" sequence, but Enrage doesn't seem to be sending this.
Instead, it goes right on to the LIST command, and of course the IMAP server
complains that this isn't valid in the non-logged-in state. Enrage reports
a server error and the connection stops.
Is this a known problem with Entourage? It happens against both EIMS (a Mac
IMAP server) and HP's OpenMail IMAP service. EIMS provides "CRAM-MD5"
authentication, which Enrage used successfully in sending mail (SMTP AUTH).
I fired up another IMAP client (Mulberry), and watched it successfully do
the "AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5" IMAP command to EIMS and log in.
I couldn't find anything in the list archive on this, or on the Microsoft
site. I'd like to think it unlikely that this feature is just plain broken,
- has anyone used it successfully?
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David Oberst/NWT Bureau of Statistics/Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
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