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<p dir="auto">On 17 Jan 2018, at 14:06, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">What authentication options that don't involve sending passwords does MailMate support? Is there a way to configure MM to use only one of these safer options if available? I know that I use it with an IMAP server that only supports CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5.</p>
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<p dir="auto">MailMate only supports <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">CRAM-MD5</code>. It can be forced to only use this by editing <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">Sources.plist</code> (and <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">Submission.plist</code>) to include this for each account:</p>
<pre style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; margin-left:15px; margin-right:15px; max-width:90vw; overflow-x:auto; padding:5px" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"><code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">authMechanism = 'CRAM-MD5';
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<p dir="auto">(<code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">XOAUTH</code> is also supported for Gmail/Outlook.)</p>
<p dir="auto">The only real reason for the lack of support of other mechanisms is that I implemented it myself instead of using a library which probably supports more methods (I haven't checked recently).</p>
<p dir="auto">Also, most of the servers I have access to only support very few authentication methods. They don't even support <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">CRAM-MD5</code>.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny<br>
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