Re: NetReg: Authentication failed error

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From: Robert Lowe (Robert.H.Lowe@lawrence.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 11:03:30 CST

Baron M Rawlins wrote:

> I'm ashamed to say it, but we never looked into changing the IMAP auth
> code, maybe we'll get around to that over spring break?
> Instead, our helpdesk staff simply sends a test email to student, and
> then they register okay.

Well, perhaps Bruce can verify for us. :-) I did find documentation
for Net::IMAP::Simple, but it's rather sparse. I didn't ever plan on
using this auth method, and since I didn't write it, I never tested it.
It would be nice to clean up the code though...

-Robert

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Lowe <mailto:Robert.H.Lowe@lawrence.edu>
> To: netreg@southwestern.edu <mailto:netreg@southwestern.edu>
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:29 AM
> Subject: Re: NetReg: Authentication failed error
>
>
>
> Baron M Rawlins wrote:
>
> > I had the same problem here a while ago (Netreg 1.3rc2 / IMAP auth)
> > Turned out that the authentication function returned the number of
> > messages in the users Inbox.
> > The students authenticated successfully, but had zero messages.
> Thus the
> > 'authentication failed' message when allive==0 or !alive,
> depending on
> > your code.
>
> So, how did you resolve this? I assume alive returns a negative value
> when authentication fails? If so, then the code should mimick what is
> there for POP authentication.
>
> -Robert
>
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