hi guys
how can i enable digest-md5 authentication method
do i have to download and install it somewhre
or do i just run a command to activate it on my solaris 10 sparc server?

the raison i am asking it's because i am using squirrelmail as a webmail and i would like to authenticate using digest-md5 method

digest-md5 is a part of the SASL framework.
If Squirrelmail is compiled with SASL, you should be able to call on your preferred encryption mechanism.

Thanks, C

do you mean that as long as i have sasl installed on my server i should have digest-md5 authentication method enabled?

Yes and no.
See http://www.squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-8.html

i c what u mean
but i realize that i only have to activate digest-md5 through the ldapsearch command
but now it's asking me for a Bind password...which is "secret" by default but it doesnt work.
what do u think i should do to obtain this misterious bind password so i can activate digest-md5 authentication methode?

how do i get
PHP XML extension?

ok i realize that my php does support xml extension
but all i need is how to enable digest-md5 ... what command should i use???

Put this
"$imap_auth_mech = 'digest-md5';" in the SquirrelMail config file.
Or use config.pl

If you don't have (or run) Perl, you can use a file called:
config_default.php.
Make a copy of this file and rename it to config.php
Then look for this part:

/* The dns name and port for your imap server. */
global $imapServerAddress, $imapPort;
$imapServerAddress = 'localhost';

$imapPort = 143;
...
$imap_server_type = 'other';
...
$use_imap_tls = false;
...
$imap_auth_mech = 'your preferred auth method';
...
$optional_delimiter = 'detect';

hi
i think i didn't put enough info on what i wanted to do ...i apologize
i understand the way you explain to me on how to activate digest-md5 auth. meth
i can do
# perl conf.pl and i get an option menu so that i could configure squirrelmail the way i want it.
that part i understand
but what i am missing is to activate digest-md5 on the server so that squirrelmail can use it...what i mean by that, is each time i try to authenticate with the digest-md5 option on...i get the error message:
"Bad request: IMAP server does not appear to support the authentication method selected. Please contact your system administrator."

so i assume that some where in my server imap doesn't support digest-md5 auth. method.

i did try the other method which is CRAM-md5...but the problem with it is that in the file cram-md5.pwd, the passwords are in plain text, which is not a good thing at all...but i learn that with digest the passwords are encrypted all the way.
so i would like to know what to do so that when i choose the auth. option "digest-md5" it works?
and what to do so that squirrelmail can see that digest is supported on the server

Thought you had that covered, because you don't mention anywhere what IMAP server you are using....

am sorry about that...lol
i installed the package from sunfreeware...
imap-2006e for for solaris 10 sparc
do you think that's the correct one?

Ah... de University of Washington.
Take a look right here http://www.washington.edu/imap/ and you 'll find everything there is to know about the UW-IMAP server.

C

oh ok
thanks am gonna take a look at it
by the way, do u know how i can activate mhash extension on php ?

I 'm not very much into php, but when you google on "activate mhash extension on php' you 'll see the answer quite rapidly.