Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian Date: To: Juha Saarinen CC: Odhiambo G. Washington, Exim Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim-4 AUTH Drivers
Juha Saarinen <juha@???> writes:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> "Odhiambo G. Washington" <wash@???> writes:
>> > 1. What auth driver is SPA? From the tarball I saw
>> M$ Special Password Authentication - a rather nonstandard abomination -
>> but outlook-* seem to support it.
>
> Almost - it stands for Secure Password Authentication. MS told me passes
> the authentication details to a SQL Server backend. It's completely
> proprietary though... how can Exim support it?
I kind of knew that, but my brain refused to believe it ... anything
with "Microsoft" and "MS SQL Server" in the same sentence with "Secure"?
Naaah :)