Re: [exim] AOL Probs

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Autor: John W. Baxter
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A: Exim-Users (E-mail)
Asunto: Re: [exim] AOL Probs
On 9/22/2004 3:52, "Tony Finch" <dot@???> 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.


That applies to PLAIN and LOGIN...not, I believe, to SPA and CRAM-MD5.

--John