"John Robinson" (Monday, August 05, 2002 2:18 AM)
> I didn't know which forms of SMTP AUTH Eudora supported, so I put in
LOGIN,
> PLAIN and CRAM-MD5. Eudora appears to prefer CRAM-MD5. Perhaps it doesn't
> support LOGIN at all? Suggest you try PLAIN and/or CRAM-MD5; I have a
vague
> recollection that LOGIN is a M$ thing. Anyway both LOGIN and PLAIN send
the
Eudora 5.1 does AUTH LOGIN pretty well.
> password in the clear (effectively); you should use CRAM-MD5 or whatever
> else to stop nasty network-sniffing people from picking up your passwords.
Or set up and offer STARTTLS - but Eudora is pretty anal about accepting
certificates if it doesn't match the hostname / CN name properly. Other
clients (or indeed, my desktop's exim) don't seem to mind, or at most, throw
a warning.
-srs
