Greetings, Dan.

4 января 2007 г., 20:01:29 you have wrote:
> I’ve been tailing my /var/log/maillog log watching pop logins and I
> had a quick question. The log shows the following:
> -------------
> mailserver vpopmail[12746]: vchkpw-pop3: (PLAIN) login success [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]:66.*.*.*
> -------------
> My question is, what does the PLAIN mean? Does that mean its
> sending the passwords in clear plain text?

Yes. Consider using POP3-TLS or POP3-TLS, of tell your users to use
APOP to authenticate.

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Best Regards,
 Alexey Loukianov                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Software Development Department,
Lavtech Corp
http://mnogo.ru, http://lavtech.ru


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