Re: [Exim] Exim-4 AUTH Drivers

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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 :)

      -srs