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Hi Maynard and Lueko!

On 17 Jan, Maynard wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:24:54 +0100 (MEZ), Lueko Willms wrote:
>=20
>>   In the account settings, I can activate "Server requires
>>authentication" for SMTP send. The question is, are there different
>>authentication methods being used by different SMTP servers, and
>>which one are supported by PMMail.=20
>=20
> "SMTP AUTH" is the only authentication I've seen for this kind of
> purpose; so I suppose that what you have will work; and that it is time
> for me to upgrade.

Not quite right. SMTP AUTH is the protocol for authentification, but not
the method. There are different ones: LOGIN (MS compatibility), PLAIN
(unencrypted), CRAM-MD5, KERBEROS, and more.

I figured that PMMail/2 only knows about LOGIN and CRAM-MD5 and tries the
latter first.

CU
Jocki
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