[Psi-devel] account defaults don't work for google talk

[Remko Tronçon]

> The messy part that I see is determining what counts as plaintext.  I know of
> PLAIN and LOGIN.  Singling out mechanisms like this defeats the SASL
> abstraction.  What you might try is not using the AllowPlain flag (which then
> fails, with no mechanism selected), and then try again with the flag enabled.
> If a mechanism is selected on the second try, then it is probably plaintext,
> and you can avoid checking explicit mechanism names.

Right. This is probably easier to implement as well.

cheers,
Remko