Bug 101703

Summary: detection of mail server authentication method fails to detect login
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: murray
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description murray 2005-03-17 16:40:48 UTC 
Version:           1.1 (as reported by kontact) (using KDE 3.4.0 Level "a" , SUSE 9.2 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24.11-default

When I try to detect authentication methods to smtpauth.earthlink.net it reports PLAIN and TLS when I press "check what server supports" Trying to use these settings fails with "An error occured during authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found authentication not supported"

If I manually select LOGIN and TLS things work fine. This looks like a regression to me as the autodetection used to work in previous KDE versions.

Thanks,
murray smigel
Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2005-03-21 00:01:12 UTC 
Note the following:
  // LOGIN doesn't offer anything over PLAIN, requires more server
  // roundtrips and is not an official SASL mechanism, but a MS-ism,
  // so only enable it if PLAIN isn't available:

I guess your problem will go away when you install cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-plain. Additionally, you should install cyrus-sasl-digestmd5, cyrus-sasl-crammd5 and probably also the other cyrus-sasl-* packages.
Comment 2 murray 2005-03-21 00:38:37 UTC 
On Sunday 20 March 2005 18:01, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
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Thanks, that did the trick. Perhaps a more informative error message might be 
possible? I certainly would not have thought to look under cyrus*.rpm!

Thanks for your help,
murray
Comment 3 Till Adam 2005-03-21 07:48:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99911 ***