Am 17.11.2012 17:23, schrieb Tim Smith: > Just wondered if there was a way of making the PLAIN an authentication method > for POP3S transactions only without > making this an option for IMAP? I am attempting to connect to a POP3S server > through the GMail interface available > through "Accounts and Import". The issue is that there does not seem to be an > option to specify the type of > mechanism within their interface so I think I have to offer PLAIN along with > SSL. Has anyone else had any > experience of using the GMail import settings?
why not simply allow PLAIN at all? nearly all modern clients are using CRAM-MD5 as default if offered as also SSL/TLS if offered - let your users decide which mech they are using, really, some of them my use whatever sync-tools like imapsync or whatever which should not bother you at all
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