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Bernard Johnson wrote:
> When you implement this [STARTTLS], consider:
> 
> -tls = on/off/optional
> 
> on       = tls is always on and required
> off      = tls is always off and not announced
> optional = tls is announced and client can use tls or proceed w/o tls

I knew that somebody was going to ask for that (the "optional" flag) :-)

My question is, though, why? At least in my environment, if I roll out
SMTP AUTH, then I want to make 100% sure that it's running over an
encrypted channel so as not to expose passwords. For that reason, I
specifically don't want to enable the "optional" value you mentioned on
my systems.

Is CRAM-MD5 safe even over a plain-text channel? Perhaps that would
explain it. AUTH PLAIN certainly isn't...
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