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:

> Is there a MUA so broken that it tries to authenticate without the
> server having advertised AUTH?


Probably. The depth of brokenness of some MUAs has to be seen to be
believed. I was recently asked for a workaround for a client that was
using tls-on-connect, then sending HELO (not EHLO), and then trying to
do AUTH.

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