From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rationale for this change?
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:56:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85u0csktg0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu64p8rw89.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:14:30 +0100")
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 2005-12-05 Ralf Angeli <angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de>
>>
>> * mail/smtpmail.el (smtpmail-try-auth-methods):
>> Send credentials together with "AUTH PLAIN" command.
>>
>> Could you shed any light on what problem this change is intended to
>> fix?
>
> The AUTH PLAIN command is not sent if the server did not advertise
> support for AUTH PLAIN. See RFC 2554. The earlier behavior violated
> a SHOULD in RFC 2222 § 5.1.
>
> So security-wise, it is not worse than before.
Ah, ok. I think rationales like that should be mentioned in the
ChangeLog. Even if just as "(RFC 2222 § 5.1)".
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-29 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 19:47 Rationale for this change? David Kastrup
2005-12-28 20:16 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-29 9:55 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-29 11:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-12-29 11:56 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-12-29 7:45 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-29 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 17:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-30 2:18 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-10 14:05 ` Simon Josefsson
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