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[jira] [Closed] (JAMES-3636) IMAP plainAuthDisallowed should be true by default

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-3636?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Benoit Tellier closed JAMES-3636.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Contributed by https://github.com/apache/james-project/pull/613

> IMAP plainAuthDisallowed should be true by default
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JAMES-3636
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-3636
>             Project: James Server
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: IMAPServer
>    Affects Versions: 3.6.0
>            Reporter: Benoit Tellier
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 3.7.0
>
>
> Encouraging non encrypted login is definitely a bad practice and could lead to session  fixation (where the attacker logs in first then the victim do not realize it's login fails).
> We should make the safe 'plainAuthDisallowed' option the default everywhere.



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