Re: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error

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Blake,

What sasl lines do you have in /etc/imapd.conf. Do you have any proxies installed?

"pop3PRTC" in your syslog looks suspicious...:

Usually, pop3 and imap will offer the same mechanisms based on this config item:

sasl_mech_list: x x x

if this line is commented out, then sasl should attempt to initialize all available mechs.

Be on the lookout for customization like this (which overrides the sasl_mech_list config item):

pop3_mech_list: x x x
imap_mech_list: x x x

- Dan

Blake Hudson wrote:
Thanks for the reply Scott. I can auth as you described using the 
User/Pass method (allowplaintext: is already set to 1 and I've also 
tried sasl_minimum_layer: 0 at the same time).

My concern is that over port 110 the server is only advertising CRAM-MD5 
and DIGEST-MD5. POP3s appears to be advertising PLAIN. Why isn't PLAIN 
advertised over both?

--Blake

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error
From: Scott M. Likens <damm@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Blake Hudson <blake@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:30:46 AM
  
Hi Blake,

Actually pop3 by default should be using plain, like

damm@desolation> telnet localhost 
pop3                                                                                                                                    
~
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK desolation Cyrus POP3 v2.3.14 server ready 
<8505169291665378509.1248848742@desolation>
user root
+OK Name is a valid mailbox
pass toor
+OK Mailbox locked and ready

However, if you man imapd.conf you will notice there is such an option 
as,

allowplaintext: 0

You may need to change that to 1, in order for plaintext ala pop3 to 
work.

Scott

On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Blake Hudson wrote:

    
-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error
From: Blake Hudson <blake@xxxxxxxx>
To: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:13:52 AM
      
I recently setup a new server and everything tested well. However, once
in production I am seeing errors like the following:

pop3PRTC[20896]: badlogin: [204.x.x.x] PLAIN encryption needed to use
mechanism


I wasn't aware that POP utilized other mechanisms? I can login just 
fine
with telnet and tbird, and cannot replicate this error myself. Any 
ideas?

--Blake

        
Looks like the POP side is not advertising LOGIN/PLAIN auth types while
the imap side is. Is this the intended behavior?

In my imapd.conf i have the following mech list defined:
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5

---------------------- POP3----------------------
+OK twinP Cyrus POP3 v2.3.7-Invoca-RPM-2.3.7-2.el5 server ready
<173180331313918
17429.1248845988@twinP>
auth
+OK List of supported mechanisms follows
DIGEST-MD5
CRAM-MD5
..
--------------------------------------------
----------------------IMAP----------------------

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID STARTTLS AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
AUTH=LOGIN
AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 SASL-IR] twinP Cyrus IMAP4
v2.3.7-Invoca-RPM-2.3.7-2.el5 server ready

--------------------------------------------

I suppose this is likely a bad client that is not refreshing its mech
list after the server switch, but I'd still like to know how to resolve
the issue server side (if possible).

-Blake
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