>I have sent two stream captures to Chris (separate email, since the list >doesn't accept attachments). Maybe he can decipher something - I looked >at the logs, but the AOL protocol doesn't seem to make much sense to me. >All that I could pick out was my username and password (transmitted in >plain text!!!).
Isn't it funny that AOL felt the need to encode the email transaction, but the username and password were ok to leave in plain text! >I hope that Chris or someone can determine the cause of this annoyance. Alas, the logs don't make any sense to me right now. I will look over my AOL notes when I get my iMac unpacked (maybe tomorrow), but I'm not holding out any hope that I can make heads or tails of it. I had forgotten just how much of the transaction they encoded. For some reason I thought it was just the handshake, and from there it went back to plain text. But that isn't the case. The handshake (minus the username/password) is encoded, as well as almost all of the email transaction (chunks of the email message is plain text, but even that is interspersed with control characters). Really this will end up having to be solved by someone at AOL that knows how the AOL gateway works. To do that, you need to get their attention, and that will be easier said then done when their tech support won't listen to the fact that Emailer is an AOL approved email client. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
