…Doesn’t work. If you decide to send your IMAP password to a 10.3 (or 10.3.1) server, the server will munge the username, causing authentication to periodically fail. “ron” becomes “ronon”, “nick” becomes “nickn” and “aaron” becomes “aarons” on my server. Apple tech.admin has acknowledged the problem to us.
I’ve seen this using both OS X Mail and Entourage clients.
Our workaround is to use a non-encrypted password, within an SSL tunnel.
That munging of usernames is actually when you have multiple users logging in via MD5. Example, I have jason and mailadmin accounts on my PowerBook both IMAP, both MD5. I see jasondmin attempting to login. It’s actually COMBINING the usernames. Good to know Apple has acknowledged it though.
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