On 2025/06/17 4:11 AM, Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-users wrote:
I am slightly surprised Exim ended up going with LOGIN rather than the much simpler PLAIN, perhaps this choice was made by some underlying library, ...
The server offered both; the Exim client is configured with at least LOGIN - but if configured with both then LOGIN is first in the config so took precedence. Anyone caring could just swap them. The actual implementations for the two are so similar that they are handled by a single driver. -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## exim-users-unsubscr...@lists.exim.org ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
