Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> How about this: CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 AUTH=ANONYMOUS LOGINDISABLED
>> Would clients be prepared for that?
>
> That capability string is fine for an anonymous-only server.  My client
> code would handle that OK, but you'd have to configure it to use anonymous
> access since otherwise it'd want to do a non-anonymous authentication (and
> complain that it can't).

Ok, I'll try that.  If I find that some clients can't handle it, I
guess I'll add "anonymous"-only LOGIN.  In that case, do you think I
should also allow AUTH=PLAIN with "anonymous" as the username?  I
guess some clients might send a real username and password belonging
to another service, only to be rejected here, but sniffers would still
get the password.  But I don't know whether advertising AUTH=PLAIN
would make this any more likely.


paul

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