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Re: POP handling commands given in wrong state

Randall Gellens <randy@Qualcomm.Com> Tue, 26 July 2011 18:38 UTC

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To: Mykyta Yevstifeyev <evnikita2@gmail.com>, Paul Smith <paul@pscs.co.uk>
From: Randall Gellens <randy@Qualcomm.Com>
Subject: Re: POP handling commands given in wrong state
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At 4:19 PM +0300 7/26/11, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:

>  The matter is that many POP servers support authentication using 
> X.509 certificate which was supplied during TLS negotiation and do 
> not require further authentication.  In such case issuing USER will 
> lead to -ERR, as the server is already in TRANSACTION then.

Could you use AUTH with SASL EXTERNAL for this case?  Seems a little 
cleaner.  Otherwise it's magic that you don't need AUTH/USER

>   Other servers implement POP-over-TLS so that further 
> authentication is also required (eg. Gmail, which I personally am 
> using).


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