---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2013-10-29 11:47:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 7655
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7655
Searchable id: yorba-bug-7655
Original author: Jim Nelson
Original description:

Geary currently only supports IMAP's PLAIN login scheme (and, worse, assumes
that all servers support it). We should expand the IMAP layer to support other
common authentication schemes, such as CRAM-MD5 and SASL. See
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.2.2

Related issues:
related to geary - Feature #6214: Kerberos authentication support (Open)
related to geary - Feature #7656: Support other SMTP authentication schemes (Open)
related to geary - 7657: Better error message when Geary is incapable of
connectin... (Open)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-10-29 11:48:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Jim Nelson 23 days ago

  * **Description** updated (diff)



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:24 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7655 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7655

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