On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Bowie Bailey wrote:

>  Is LOGIN encrypted at all or is it basically plaintext?  I would like to get
>  some sort of authentication going, but it needs to be at least semi-secure.

Plain text. That's why you'd use it with TLS/SSL, so as to encrypt the
connection. Alternatively, you could tunnel the lot with e.g. stunnel
(http://www.stunnel.org/). Bit more involved to set up initially, but
perhaps easier than troubleshooting eccentric Microsoft mail clients. ;-)

-- 
Juha Saarinen



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