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| author | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2010-10-16 09:42:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2010-10-16 09:42:39 +0200 |
| commit | 5ac9f090d23e2b017aaf9c8025c4eaea7de7a388 (patch) | |
| tree | 13725e9896b05463037bc8099370d05c4ee45655 | |
| parent | ca8074e71371266c614fc20907419ec178015421 (diff) | |
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Add R15 paragraph on updating fetchmail.
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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 48449fc6..c77f7900 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -2508,6 +2508,15 @@ env PATH=/opt/openssl1.0.0/bin /opt/openssl1.0.0/bin/c_rehash /home/hans/certs <h2><a id="R15" name="R15">R15. Help, I'm getting Authorization failure!</a></h2> +<p>First, try upgrading to fetchmail 6.3.18 or newer. Release 6.3.18 has +received a considerable number of bug fixes for the authentication +feature (AUTH, AUTHENTICATE, SASL). Most notably, fetchmail aborts SASL +authentication attempts properly with an asterisk if it detects that it +cannot make progress with a particular authentication scheme. This fixes +issues where GSSAPI-enabled fetchmail cannot authenticate against +Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. <strong>Note</strong> that this is a +bug in old fetchmail versions!</p> + <p>Fetchmail by default attempts to authenticate using various schemes. Fetchmail tries these schemes in order of descending security, meaning the most secure schemes are tried first.</p> |