On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:52, Tony Finch wrote:
> 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.
>
Exchange? Am I on the wrong list ?
> Tony.
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