AuthMechanism Property

The authentication mechanism to be used when connecting to the mail server.

Syntax

 pimap.getAuthMechanism([callback])
 pimap.setAuthMechanism( authMechanism, [callback])

Possible Values

  0 (amUserPassword), 
  1 (amCRAMMD5), 
  2 (amNTLM), 
  3 (amAPOP), 
  4 (amSASLPlain), 
  5 (amSASLDigestMD5), 
  6 (amKerberos), 
  7 (amXOAUTH2)

Default Value

0

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for the getAuthMechanism([callback]) method is defined as:

function(err, data){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'data' is the value returned by the method.

The callback for the setAuthMechanism([callback]) method is defined as:

function(err){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

Data Type

Integer