Possible Authentication Issue/Interop Problems

2014-10-03 Thread NSS Ltd
Hi, I've been having problems using submission on port 587. Clients like Thunderbird, Outlook etc. all seem to work OK (Good !). However, trying to get a .NET server application to send mail by authentication keeps failing with user failed authentication errors. At first, it looked like .NET

Re: Possible Authentication Issue/Interop Problems

2014-10-03 Thread Axel Rau
I have problems with DIGEST-MD5 since I remember, but never tracked it down like you did. We accept only SSL connections and so used plaintext password as workaround. Am 03.10.2014 um 12:33 schrieb NSS Ltd nss...@networksystemssolutions.co.uk: . . . Oct 3 10:08:51 messaging Archiveopteryx:

Re: Possible Authentication Issue/Interop Problems

2014-10-03 Thread NSS Ltd
Hi Axel, I didn't have the luxury of switching; I'm going to look at the aox code in the next few days as this has a knock on effect on a project I have so I need to fix it. Thanks for confirming you'd had issues as it lets me know it's not just some quirk I have. Jim On 03/10/2014 12:52, Axel

Re: Possible Authentication Issue/Interop Problems

2014-10-03 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
I had a look at RFCs 3501 and 4422 now, and as far as I can see those quote characters sent by mailkit are unambiguously illegal in IMAP and SASL. They are, however, almost legal in base64. The base64 spec says that decoders should/may discard any characters outside the defined set.

Re: Possible Authentication Issue/Interop Problems

2014-10-03 Thread NSS Ltd
OK - I'd downloaded from https://github.com/jstedfast The client side is a .NET 4 application speaking to the aox server. It may well be that the clients are not formatting correctly but it may be helpful to have an option to permit it and certainly a log message to say it is happening ? (It

Re: Possible Authentication Issue/Interop Problems

2014-10-03 Thread NSS Ltd
Great ! Some elements do need quotes but some others don't - I found that out when I changed the code initially to remove all quoting and got these helpful hints from aox : ct 3 10:16:18 messaging Archiveopteryx: 7591/6/7/4/1 user is not quoted in DIGEST-MD5 response Oct 3 10:16:18 messaging

Re: Possible Authentication Issue/Interop Problems

2014-10-03 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On Friday, October 3, 2014 2:45:45 PM CEST, NSS Ltd wrote: Great ! Some elements do need quotes but some others don't - I found that out when I changed the code initially to remove all quoting and got these helpful hints from aox : I think the guiding principle here is that things are either