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* Rationale for this change?
@ 2005-12-28 19:47 David Kastrup
  2005-12-28 20:16 ` Ralf Angeli
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From: David Kastrup @ 2005-12-28 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: angeli


2005-12-05  Ralf Angeli  <angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de>

	* mail/smtpmail.el (smtpmail-try-auth-methods):
	Send credentials together with "AUTH PLAIN" command.

I have not seen this discussed on the list, and it feels to me that
this defeats system administrators who disable "AUTH PLAIN" because
they consider the access path to the mail server under their
administration unsafe for plain text transfers.  While the
authentication is refused, the authentication data itself is still
sent through the network after this change, making the refusal of
"AUTH PLAIN" ineffective for avoiding ill consequences of snoopable
connections.

Could you shed any light on what problem this change is intended to
fix?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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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
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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