[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Great, this helps so much.  Thanks for your help Bill.  So just for a
> quick recap to be sure that I understand this correctly, once TLS is
> enabled it handles all of encryption regarding SMTP traffic including the
> authentication.  So I can use sasl-plain auth without being concerned that
> someone can "sniff" the user_id and password because the connection has
> already been encrypted.  Let me know if I am off base here at all.

You need to ensure that you only allow PLAIN or LOGIN authentication on
a TLS connection, otherwise a client could accidentally connect without
TLS and send a password en-clair.

This is usually done with:

server_advertise_condition = ${if def:tls_cipher}

in the authenticator definition.

- Marc

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