I’m having difficulty adding a Kerio Connect email account to my eM Client. I have read several threads about work arounds on the Kerio side about making changes to accommodate the lack of Plain Password Authentication, however, that won’t work in my case. In my situation, Kerio Connect is tied to Active Directory for a a domain, so Kerio doesn’t do the password authentication, it just passes it along to the AD controller, thus the need for plain password authentication.
I have tried everything I possibly can think of to work around for this issue, but I’m out of ideas.
* OK IMAP4rev1 server ready
A0 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 IDLE ACL LITERAL+ UIDPLUS QUOTA ID SORT ANNOTATE ANNOTATEMORE STATUS-COUNTERS UNSELECT LISTEXT NAMESPACE XLIST STARTTLS AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
A0 OK CAPABILITY completed
A1 STARTTLS
A1 OK Ready to start TLS
A2 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 IDLE ACL LITERAL+ UIDPLUS QUOTA ID SORT ANNOTATE ANNOTATEMORE STATUS-COUNTERS UNSELECT LISTEXT NAMESPACE XLIST AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
A2 OK CAPABILITY completed
A3 ID (“name” “eM Client” “version” “5.0.18661.0” “GUID” “1”)
* ID (“name” “Kerio Connect”)
A3 OK ID completed
A4 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
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A4 NO Authentication failed
A5 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 - PDEyODAuMTM4MDY2MTEzMkBjYWxlbmRhci5iZWVoaXZlLm5ldD4=
bmljay5maWVsZGluZyBkNjJiNDY5YTg3YWUzZTExOWYyODVkNWM3NjkyNzIzYQ==
A5 NO Authentication failed
A6 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 - PDEyODAuMTM4MDY2MTE1MkBjYWxlbmRhci5iZWVoaXZlLm5ldD4=
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A6 NO Authentication failed
* OK IMAP4rev1 server ready
A0 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 IDLE ACL LITERAL+ UIDPLUS QUOTA ID SORT ANNOTATE ANNOTATEMORE STATUS-COUNTERS UNSELECT LISTEXT NAMESPACE XLIST STARTTLS AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
A0 OK CAPABILITY completed
A1 STARTTLS
A1 OK Ready to start TLS
A2 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 IDLE ACL LITERAL+ UIDPLUS QUOTA ID SORT ANNOTATE ANNOTATEMORE STATUS-COUNTERS UNSELECT LISTEXT NAMESPACE XLIST AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
A2 OK CAPABILITY completed
A3 ID (“name” “eM Client” “version” “5.0.18661.0” “GUID” “1”)
* ID (“name” “Kerio Connect”)
A3 OK ID completed
A4 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 - PDEyODAuMTM4MDY2MTY0N0BjYWxlbmRhci5iZWVoaXZlLm5ldD4=
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A4 NO Authentication failed