IMAP/LOGINDISABLED support in Archiveopteryx

LOGINDISABLED is a strange beast. Most IMAP extensions extend the IMAP client's abilities. LOGINDISABLED does the opposite: When the server advertises LOGINDISABLED, the client is not permitted to log in using plain-text passwords. Instead, the client must log in using a challenge/response mechanism such as CRAM-MD5.

In Archiveopteryx, the configuration variable allow-plaintext-passwords controls LOGINDISABLED. It is often better to use allow-plaintext-access instead.

In case of questions, please write to info@oryx.com.

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Other IMAP extensions supported:
ACL, ANNOTATE, BINARY, CATENATE, CHILDREN, COMPRESS, CONDSTORE, ENABLE, ESEARCH, ID, IDLE, LISTEXT, LITERAL+, NAMESPACE, SASL-IR, STARTTLS, UIDPLUS, UNSELECT, URLAUTH, WITHIN
RFC 3501

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Last modified: 2008-08-01
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