Re: [Exim] Help with SMTP AUTH

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Autore: Matt Bernstein
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To: Exim Users
Oggetto: Re: [Exim] Help with SMTP AUTH
At 11:45 -0400 Peter Radcliffe wrote:

>Personally I'd never use login passwords for SMTP AUTH - they get used
>in the clear too often (although it's not as bad if you enforce AUTH
>only over TLS/SSL, which I do).


..but it's too late by then! You say (in the clear)
    AUTH PLAIN MiMeHaSh..
..and the server replies
    503 STARTTLS required before AUTH


Oops. Not a lot you can do about that, except only use MUAs (and MTAs..)
you trust!