Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some improvements for git-imap-send

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 07:37:44PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

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Did you mean "SASL-support that is needed for CRAM-MD5"? The SASL needed
for that is pretty simple. Hitoshi's patch 3/4 does all of that already
in less than 100 lines.  Using a "real" sasl library might get us more
authentication methods than CRAM-MD5, but I don't know that anyone
necessarily cares about them.

No, that's not what I meant. I agree that CRAM-MD5 should be
sufficient, but to be honest I'd already thought that once you have an
SSL connection, plaintext would also be sufficient. So I'm thinking of
this addition as a "hmpf, some server requires stuff that is really
over the top - perhaps we'll have this problem later with other
servers, and we'd be better off just using some well-tested
implementation". But that's kinda philosophical.

Ah, I see. Yes, it's possible that we may want to support other
authentication methods later. In my experience, CRAM-MD5 is the only
common non-plain IMAP mechanism used by IMAP, but I admit it has been
quite a number of years since I actively paid attention to such things.

I'd leave that choice to whoever feels like implementing it. :)

-Peff