Re: [exim] AUTH over TLS only

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] AUTH over TLS only
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Marc Haber wrote:

> It should prevent a well-behaved client from authenticating since it
> does only advertise AUTH over encrypted connections. Of course, a very
> broken client who insists to authenticate even to a server that
> doesn't advertise AUTH is not prevented.


It's not prevented from *trying*, but Exim won't accept AUTH unless it
has advertised it.

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