[MlMt] Is there a way to disable PLAIN authentication in MailMate?

Kee Hinckley kee+freron at hinckley.com
Fri Dec 26 14:01:21 EST 2014


I suspect IT changed the Exchange configuration over break, and all of a 
sudden login is failing. When I google the error I find people saying 
that it's rejecting PLAIN authentication. Except of course the !@#!@ 
server says it *accepts* PLAIN.

05:44:57 S: A1 OK Begin TLS negotiation now.
05:44:57 Initiating secure connection...
05:45:00 Setup of secure connection complete (TLSv1).
05:45:00  Cipher: AES128-SHA              SSLv3 Kx=RSA      Au=RSA  
Enc=AES(128)  Mac=SHA1
05:45:00 C: A2 CAPABILITY
05:45:01 S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=NTLM AUTH=GSSAPI 
AUTH=PLAIN UIDPLUS CHILDREN IDLE NAMESPACE LITERAL+
05:45:01 S: A2 OK CAPABILITY completed.
05:45:01 Retrieving password (keychain or user request)
05:45:01 C: A3 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
05:45:01 S: +
05:45:01 C: ••••••••••
05:45:02 S: A3 NO AUTHENTICATE failed.
05:45:02 Error: Server response: “A3 NO AUTHENTICATE failed.”. 
Command attempted: “••••••••••”.

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