Re: Relaying Denied

[Randall Gellens]

At 10:41 AM -0500 2/6/03, Alan Brown wrote:

 As a result, roaming users need to use the MSA port instead of SMTP and
 there are security issues involved with using plaintext SMTP AUTH - as
 in anyone can read the passwords if they happen to be sniffing the
 traffic(*), so you'd better use SSL too.

Or at least CRAM-MD5, SASl-DIGEST, or another SMTP AUTH mechanism that doesn't send clear text passwords.
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