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 Rau wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]>:
>
> . . .
>
>> Oct  3 10:08:51 messaging Archiveopteryx: 7591/6/8/4/1 resp
>> <<"9e5ee49ef8d07b875d7fff80274b8c73">> has length 34 (not 32) in
>> DIGEST-MD5 response
>>
>> Which indicated the parsing of the MD5 auth response did not like the
>> quoting of the response element - the quotes add 2 characters giving 34
>> instead of expected 32.
>>
>> As I had the source code to MailKit, I was able to alter the relevant
>> section to remove the quotations, firstly from just the response element
>> but that still failed.  I then altered it so quoting was removed from
>> qop, response and algorithm and then I could authenticate.  (The
>> benefits of open source!)
>>
>> However, this looks like an interoperability issue on the Archiveopteryx
>> side.
>>
>> As I've been working on this other project and not had much time
>> recently, it looks like I need to come back round to aox and look at
>> that auth code as it should permit some additional quotation by the
>> looks of things.
>>
>> Any thoughts/comments ?
> Axel
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