Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:46:49 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions on setting up a mail server Message-ID: <80f4f2b20709050346l21f000f0y552bc0711cfcacfd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200709051012.46793.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEELCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <200709051012.46793.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
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> All the authentication options you mention after plain text (which is the > standard method built in to the protocol) require Cyrus SASL. This isn't as > scary to set up as the docs make it sound. PLAIN and LOGIN can both use your > existing user passwords (which is what I do). GSSAPI requires Kerberos, and > the digest methods (the -MD5 ones) need a separate file of passwords held in > plain text - the sasldb. Of the passwd-based methods, PLAIN is the preferred > protocol according to the docs and RFCs - LOGIN is the one Microsoft uses (go > figure). Thanks, that's almost all of what I needed there. You insinuated (but I don't think explicitly stated) that LOGIN is in fact encrypted in some form? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton
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