Re: [Exim] Incorrect authentication data

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Συντάκτης: Matt Bernstein
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Προς: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Υ/ο: exim-users, John Robinson
Αντικείμενο: Re: [Exim] Incorrect authentication data
At 10:06 +0800 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>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.


"I'm not going to accept your certificate because I'd rather believe the
mega-secure DNS." Bof! But I digress (sorry).