Subject: UW imapd v4.21 vs. v4.33

From: Steffen Kaiser <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:20:29 +0100 (CET)

Hello,

I upgraded my UW imapd from v4.21 to v4.33 (both shipped with pine of that
particular release number).

It worked as usual, except with biff from Netscape Communicator packages
v4.7x (biff == the small Netscape Mail Notification util).
Biff is entitled to use the same authentification information as the
Messenger itself and everybody using the IMAP protocoll is effected.

When an user logs in into imapd v4.33 using the Netscape Messenger, the
logfile reads [compacted]:

imapd[446]: [ID 576018 mail.debug] port 32804 service init from 127.0.0.1
imapd[446]: [ID 666661 mail.info] Authenticated user=XYZ host=localhost
imapd[446]: [ID 533678 mail.info] Logout user=XYZ host=localhost

["localhost" is correct, BTW.]

Using "biff" the logfile reads [compacted]:
imapd[22008]: [ID 576018 mail.debug] port 56054 service init from 127.0.0.1
imapd[22008]: [ID 234311 mail.info] Login user=XYZ host=localhost
imapd[22008]: [ID 533678 mail.info] Logout user=XYZ host=localhost

BUT biff endlessly prompts for the user password.

Using biff with imapd v4.21 the logfile reads [compacted]:
imapd4.21[22250]: [ID 576018 mail.debug] port 56280 service init from
127.0.0.1
imapd4.21[22250]: [ID 234311 mail.info] Login user=XYZ host=localhost
imapd4.21[22250]: [ID 533678 mail.info] Logout user=XYZ host=localhost

[The different service name simply reflects the different file name.]

And biff successfully logs in into imapd.

===

Both demons were built using "build gs5" on Solaris 8 with GCC v2.95.2;
v4.33 automatically detected and included SSL, which is working.

ipop3d v4.33 and biff are working together as before.

===

Is there something I can do, so biff is working with v4.33? I want to
upgrade in order to use the SSL capabilities of UW imapd.

Regards,

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:24:36 -0800 (PST)

> v4.7x (biff == the small Netscape Mail Notification util).

There is a known bug with the "nsnotify" program.  That program does not
correctly implement IMAP protocol, and breaks with more modern IMAP
servers.

You should report the problem to Netscape.

-- Mark --

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