AuthMechanism Property

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

Syntax

[VB.NET]
Public Property AuthMechanism As ImapAuthMechanisms

[C#]
public ImapAuthMechanisms AuthMechanism {get; set;}


enum ImapAuthMechanisms {
  amUserPassword,
  amCRAMMD5,
  amNTLM,
  amSASLPlain,
  amSASLDigestMD5,
  amKerberos,
  amXOAUTH2
}

Remarks

By default, AuthMechanism is amUserPassword (0), and default plaintext authentication is used to login to the server. If AuthMechanism is set to amCRAMMD5 (1), the more secure CRAM-MD5 authentication is used instead.

If AuthMechanism is set to amNTLM (2) NTLM authentication will be used.

AuthMechanism can be set to amSASLPlain (4) as well. Note, however, that servers will often require SSL or some other encrypted session protection be used when this authentication mechanism is requested.

If AuthMechanism is set to amKerberos (6) Kerberos authentication will be used. NOTE: This functionality is only available in Windows.

Default Value

0