James Mail Server Password Encoding From PHP

Question

Hi,
I am writing a PHP website server administration component for the MYSQL database used by James Mail server.
When I encode the password in PHP using MD5, Crypt, SHA, SHA1 or use MSQL encoding functions (MD5 or SHA) when I try to send mail to the Java server it keeps telling me "ERROR smtpserver: AUTH method LOGIN failed".
1)In PHP what encoding should I use so the JavaMail API can encode the authentication the same way?
2) If I want to use no encoding what code do I put in the pwdAlgorithm field?
PHP Version 5.2.6
Apache 2.0 Handler
James 2.3.1
Regards,
Jaco
Edited by: Buglish on Mar 4, 2009 10:59 PM
Edited by: Buglish on Mar 4, 2009 11:05 PM

Answer 1

This is a interaction with Java thus who better to ask then the people that work with JavaMail password encryption all the time.
What I am trying to solve is to find out the encryption format of James. Does James encrypt the passwords itself when a new mailbox is created or JavaMail's security class?
You will notice my second question is what code does james or javamail use when no encryption is used. (e.g. pwdAlgorithm). This field is the MySQL field used to store the encryption type.
James still has to encrypt the password in the format which is specified to verify the password.
Thus my main question, why does PHP encoding not match James's encoding?
In PHP the same encoding format should be used.
PHP uses :
SHA1 - RFC 3174 - US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1)
MD5 - RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
Edited by: Buglish on Mar 5, 2009 12:24 AM