Re: SMTP_AUTH

[Philip Hazel <ph10 at cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Brian Candler wrote:

> The LOGIN (Microsoft specific) authentication mechanism

Just for the record: LOGIN is not Microsoft specific. It was invented by
Mark Crispin for use with Pine. It is unfortunate that it was around the
same time as the standardized PLAIN mechanism. (There are some who argue
that LOGIN has the advantage that the user id and password don't travel
in the same packet, but personally, I don't think that is of great
importance.)

Philip

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10 at cus.cam.ac.uk      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.


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