Re: [exim] AOL Probs

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, John W. Baxter wrote:
>
> But what's the point of using SSL on ONE of the hops a mail message takes?

To protect the authentication exchange which would otherwise expose
usernames and passwords, which is NOT something you want to do on a public
network.

Tony.
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