Re: [exim] AUTH over TLS only

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] AUTH over TLS only
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:46:42 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>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.


Is there a MUA so broken that it tries to authenticate without the
server having advertised AUTH? I think that even Outlook does _this_
right.

Greetings
Marc

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