My setup:

qmail-ldap 2003-0801b
smtp-auth 20030801

All works, including smtp-authentication.

My concerns: with the current configuration both - username and password
- are send from mail client to smtp server in base64 encoding - so
basically plain text. (A simple uudecode of a captured packet will show
the plain text.)

After doing my home work with google on the subject I didn't find
anything on using some kind of encryption for this process, e.g. MD5.

I'm aware that I could use the whole smtp session over SSL - but with
the common kind of user in mind I find it hard to convince everyone to
use SSL other than forcing them by simply not allowing clear text
sessions at all.

Any hints/pointers are appreciated.

Thanks,
Thomas



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