John W. Baxter wrote:
[...]
> Authentication would be nice. As soon as Netscape 4 and earlier go away
> (Netscape 4 requires a password at the first attempted send each time it is
> started up, and users "resist"*), we'd like to require authentication. But
> by then some other MUA will come into use which doesn't speak SMTP AUTH the
> way Exim does. Sigh!
FWIW Mozilla 4 (easy to install as an upgrade to NS 4) "speaks" standard
SASL and chooses automatically from what the ehlo to Exim 4 advertises.
Mozilla chooses CRAM-MD5 before plain, if its advertised - and MD5 is
the way to go, especially if you don't use TLS.
You probably wouldn't be interested, but Evolution (gtk - Linux/new
Solaris et co.) does more or less the same.
--Tonni
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