Bug 16093

Summary: Why CRAM-MD5 is disabled?
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component: cyrus-saslAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Description Pekka Savola 2000-08-13 07:40:10 UTC 
Please also see #16064, the sendmail side of the story.

While building cyrus-sasl, CRAM-MD5 is explicitly disabled.  Is there a
specific reason for this?

I was wondering because I saw the list of SMTP authentication methods
different MUA's support, and DIGEST-MD5 was rare; on the other hand,
CRAM-MD5 seemed to be much widely supported:

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/mel/SASL_ClientRef.html
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-08-14 16:11:26 UTC 
Will be fixed in cyrus-sasl-1.5.24-4.