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Subject: Re: [9fans] upas/smtp changes for STARTTLS, AUTH PLAIN.
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:55:58 BST."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 18:12:40 -0400
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> > messed it up somewhere.  But the changes compile, and the only
> > other supported plaintext authentication method (LOGIN) is
> > non-standard and supposedly deprecated (not to mention slow), and
>
> If you have a client which only supports LOGIN authentication,
> deprecated or not, then you are very grateful.

I didn't remove support for LOGIN, just added support for PLAIN.

> I believe that means 99.9% of the world.

Really?  I couldn't find a single document that described it, which is
why I did PLAIN in the client.  The documentation at sendmail.org said
it was something one had to ask Mark Crispin about.

	- Dan C.