Jonathan Angliss wrote:
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I just spent an hour googling for PROXYAUTH, didn't find too much, a few bits on LDAP, and some on HTTP... Searched for IMAP PROXYAUTH, found some stuff about iPlanet, Sun's mail services (a bit like Exchange from a quick overview).
I wouldn't compare iPlanet to Exchange, except that Microsoft likes to advertise Exchange as an Enterprise Messaging server. Sun touts the largest enterprise install base (22%).
Well, when I said "like" I meant that they had similar general goals in being an enterprise level mail system, and from my initial glance there appeared to be some extra stuff in there that now I cannot find any informatino on ;)
Welcome to my world :)
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How would you propose you login to the IMAP server then? ;) "login" is the default and is what is used for plain text logins.
... there are other ways to login other than "login" ;)
PROXYAUTH seems like an extension AFTER login, I don't really have the
time to traul through Sun's documentation, and you seemed to have done
more research in that area, so you might know if it is possible to issue
it BEFORE a LOGIN.
It's impossible to give a definite answer to this because it's poorly documented, much less defined in an RFC. However, it only works after the admin user has issued the login command.
While I know there are various types of login methods,
CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, and LOGIN are just 3 off the top of my head. RFC3501 does mention that the AUTHENTICATE command does use SASL
authentication mechanisms to the server. This would suggest that in
theory it would be possible to use any SASL supported authentication
mechanisms as long as the IMAP server supported it.
Unfortunately, I believe that iPlanet only supports, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, APOP SASL, LOGIN/PROXYAUTH and certificates.
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6009-10/security.htm#17884
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