No thanks.

No desire to run Exchange.

Thanks, though.

Chris

> From: "Craig Bowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "SIMS Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:26:50 -0700
> To: "SIMS Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: SMTP AUTH security/passwords transmitted in the clear?
> 
> 
>> So if clients are running Outlook Express, then we can just set
>> them up to
>> use SMTP authentication and it should work that way (with the CRAM-MD5
>> "encryption")?
> 
> No, reference the table I linked to.  Outlook Express (at least in
> versions 4 and 5) only supports LOGIN and PLAIN, not CRAM-MD5.  LOGIN, is
> simply plain text, Base-64 encoded.
> 
> You've have to move to something like Eudora, and if it's a 4.0 version,
> check the settings thusly:
> http://members.elysium.pl/brush/smtp-auth/clients/eudora/index.html
> 
> If you require the use of Outlook Express, or Outlook, and requre
> "secure" logins (Microsoft's version of secure), you need to replace SIMS
> with something like an Exchange Server that supports microsofts
> proprietary Secure Password Authentication (SPA), which you'll note that
> you can turn on in both products.
> 
> As for what that is, you can glean info here:
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154
> 
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