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On 6 Jun 2002, at 12:40, John W Baxter wrote:
> Specific question: do those of us here know of any somewhat or very
> popular email client which will only use CRAM-MD5 of the SMTP AUTH methods
> accepted by Exim?
Pegasus mail


Leonardo Boselli
Firenze
http://www.toscanarail.org

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"Leonardo Boselli" <leo@dicea.unifi.it> writes:

> On 6 Jun 2002, at 12:40, John W Baxter wrote:
>> Specific question: do those of us here know of any somewhat or very
>> popular email client which will only use CRAM-MD5 of the SMTP AUTH methods
>> accepted by Exim?
> Pegasus mail

Which version would that be? Pegasus 4.x uses login pretty happily.

This is exim 4.04 with pwcheck based AUTH, and advertises only PLAIN and
LOGIN as the AUTH methods.

Sample log ...

2002-06-06 13:00:40 17FpO4-0005EU-00 <= suresh@outblaze.com
H=202-77-223-2.outblaze.com (3f-conf) [202.77.223.2] P=asmtp
A=login:suresh S=14508
2002-06-06 13:00:40 17FpO4-0005EU-00 => suresh <suresh@hserus.net>
R=localuser T=local_delivery 2002-06-06 13:00:40 17FpO4-0005EU-00 Completed

-srs

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On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> "Leonardo Boselli" <leo@dicea.unifi.it> writes:
> > On 6 Jun 2002, at 12:40, John W Baxter wrote:
> >> Specific question: do those of us here know of any somewhat or very
> >> popular email client which will only use CRAM-MD5 of the SMTP AUTH methods
> >> accepted by Exim?
> > Pegasus mail
> Which version would that be? Pegasus 4.x uses login pretty happily.

3.12 ... since 4.x does not add tto many usefus feature, but a couple of
these can easily lead to errors [say sending HTML messages], since me and
all people that I know about has kept 3.12 !

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, John W Baxter wrote:

> Specific question: do those of us here know of any somewhat or very
> popular email client which will only use CRAM-MD5 of the SMTP AUTH methods
> accepted by Exim?

unlikely any, i'd say. just thinking, if i were to write a mua, and i
implemented cram-md5, the other two are so damn simple i'd implement
them even just for fun or pr.

> And another: how about the proxy that Norton AntiVirus sticks into the
> data flow on outgoing messages?

nav. because you deserve it(tm).

:)

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Leonardo Boselli <leo@dicea.unifi.it> writes:

> 3.12 ... since 4.x does not add tto many usefus feature, but a couple of
> these can easily lead to errors [say sending HTML messages], since me and
> all people that I know about has kept 3.12 !

Ah. I have not used pegasus since 3.12 came out (switched to linux /
freebsd on my desktop and mutt / emacs as my MUA). Then had to install
pegasus 4.x as I was stuck in a linux-less environment for about a month
or so recently.

Was quite impressed by its having changed for the better. Lots of stuff
that I'd been wanting in 3.x - and stuff I didn't want at all (like html
support and such - but that can be turned off I think).

-srs

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 07:49:04AM +0200, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > "Leonardo Boselli" <leo@dicea.unifi.it> writes:
> > > On 6 Jun 2002, at 12:40, John W Baxter wrote:
> > >> Specific question: do those of us here know of any somewhat or very
> > >> popular email client which will only use CRAM-MD5 of the SMTP AUTH methods
> > >> accepted by Exim?
> > > Pegasus mail
> > Which version would that be? Pegasus 4.x uses login pretty happily.
>
> 3.12 ... since 4.x does not add tto many usefus feature, but a couple of
> these can easily lead to errors [say sending HTML messages], since me and
> all people that I know about has kept 3.12 !

3.12 uses LOGIN and PLAIN quite happily. Our auth service can only
use LOGIN and PLAIN and we have a large Pegasus user base.

Mike

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