RFC 1731

"IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms", December 1994

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1731.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Author:

J. Myers

Stream:

IETF

Source:

imap (app)

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Abstract

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. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.