authMechanism (property)

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

Syntax

• Objective-C
• Swift

@property (nonatomic,readwrite,assign,getter=authMechanism,setter=setAuthMechanism:) int authMechanism;
- (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_SASLXOAUTH_2(7)

public var authMechanism: GmailAuthMechanisms {
  get {...}
  set {...}
}

public enum GmailAuthMechanisms : Int32 {
  case amUserPassword = 0
  case amCRAMMD5 = 1
  case amNTLM = 2
  case amSASLPlain = 4
  case amSASLDigestMD5 = 5
  case amKerberos = 6
  case amSASLXOAuth2 = 7
}

Default Value

0

Remarks

By default, AuthMechanism is amUserPassword (0), and default plaintext authentication is used to login to the server.

If AuthMechanism is set to amSASLXOAuth2 (7), an OAUTH authorization string is used to authenticate. The Authorization property must be set to a valid authorization string.

At the time of this writing no other authentication mechanisms are supported by Google.