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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#41294: SMTP AUTH PLAIN (rfc 2595) incorrectness
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-04-19 19:10:40
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On April 19, 2002 06:21 am, dr_maux@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Package: kmail
> Version: KDE 3.0.0
> Severity: normal
> Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
> Compiler:          Not Specified
> OS:                Not Specified
> OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified
>
> Upon authentication using AUTH PLAIN, the authentication data should (or
> must?) be supplied by the client without requiring a server challenge.
> Several mail servers (like exim) default to this behaviour.
> See http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.00/doc/html/spec_33.html#CHAP33
> for an explanation, or RFC 2595.

after reading RFC 2595 and looking at the examples there and comparing them to 
kio_smtp and kdesasl, it seems that the current behaviour is indeed correct. 
but i could be wrong, or exim could be broken (the former is more likely than 
the latter, i'm afraid =).

is anyone actually having real problems with exim and PLAIN auth, or is this 
another one of those, "it looks wrong according to my tricorder, captain!" 
types of bugs?

-- 
Aaron Seigo
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