Re: [Exim] Convincing Netscape to SMTP AUTH LOGIN

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Author: Christi Alice Scarborough
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To: Exim Mailing List
CC: Ephraim Silverberg
Subject: Re: [Exim] Convincing Netscape to SMTP AUTH LOGIN
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> >
> > What must I do to convince Netscape to authenticate with the Exim server?
>
> Configure the server to use PLAIN authentication. LOGIN is a Pine/c-client
> thing. I suspect Netscape uses PLAIN, which is defined in an RFC.


From the brief look I had at this a week or so ago, it appeared that
Netscape only supports SSL authentication, not SMTP AUTH.

Christi
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