authMechanism (property)
The authentication mechanism to be used when connecting to the mail server.
- (int)authMechanism
- (void)setAuthMechanism:(int)newAuthMechanism
Possible Values
AM_USER_PASSWORD(0), AM_CRAMMD5(1), AM_NTLM(2), AM_SASLPLAIN(4), AM_SASLDIGEST_MD5(5), AM_KERBEROS(6), AM_XOAUTH2(7)
Default Value
0
Remarks
| Auth Mechanism | Description |
| 0 (amUserPassword - Default) | A user/password pair is sent in plaintext to login. (Default) |
| 1 (amCRAMMD5) | CRAM-MD5 authentication. |
| 2 (amNTLM) | NTLM authentication. |
| 4 (amSASLPlain) | SASLPlain. Note, that servers will often require SSL be used when this authentication mechanism is requested. See AuthorizationIdentity. |
| 5 (amSASLDigestMD5) | SASLDigestMD5. See AuthorizationIdentity. |
| 6 (amKerberos) | Kerberos authentication. This option is available in Windows or other platforms when using the Java edition. |
| 7 (mXOAUTH) | XOAUTH2 authentication. See AuthorizationIdentity. |