1731: IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms.

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The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4 [IMAP4] contains the AUTHENTICATE command, for identifying and authenticating a user to an IMAP4 server and for optionally negotiating a protection mechanism for subsequent protocol interactions. This document describes several authentication mechanisms for use by the IMAP4 AUTHENTICATE command.

Status PROPOSED STANDARD
Format TXT=11433 bytes
Authors
Date December 1994
Keyphrases authentication IMAP4 mechanism Authentication Mechanisms

References

RFC1508: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface.
RFC1730: Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4.

Referenced by

RFC1730: Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4.
RFC1734: POP3 AUTHentication command.
RFC2060: Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1.
RFC2095: IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response.
RFC2192: IMAP URL Scheme.
RFC2195: IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response.
RFC2828: Internet Security Glossary.
RFC2980: Common NNTP Extensions.
RFC3117: On the Design of Application Protocols.
RFC3792: Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Security Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents.
RFC4450: Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents.