On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Ilya wrote:
> looks like password is actually $3 and user $2, $1 is empty. i am now
> completly confused.
For PLAIN authentication, that is correct. For LOGIN authentication,
user is $1 and password is $2. It is extremely confusing that both of
these authentication methods are in common use.
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