[pmmail-list] Yahoo! to use Authenticated SMTP

[Maynard]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:03:21 +0100 (CET),
pmmail-archive@joachimselinger.de wrote:

>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.

I was thinking PLAIN all the way, with clear exposed passwords just
like POP3.

	`~Maynard

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