Brent, > Does "James" support Microsoft Secure Password Authentication > (SPA/AUTH MSN) for SMTP
As noted by the article you referenced, http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154, the "Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is a feature provided by Microsoft's e-mail servers (and subsequently implemented in its e-mail clients) as a secure means of authenticating e-mail traffic (POP3, SMTP, and IMAP). This document describes the Microsoft-proprietary protocol that operates via the SMTP AUTH interface defined by RFC 2554." Although it operates as a standard RFC 2554 extension to the standard SMTP protocol described by RFC 2821, Microsoft SPA itself is a "Microsoft-proprietary protocol". Please review in detail the new Microsoft Communications Protocol Program, which you can find at http://members.microsoft.com/consent/Info/default.aspx. It appears that Microsoft is taking to licensing the wire-level protocols that they use as a solution to the problem of Open Source software and competitive implementations. According to Microsoft's site, implementing any of Microsoft's licensed protocols, whether extensions to standard public protocols or Microsoft-originated protocols, will require the payment of a licensing fee. --- Noel -----Original Message----- From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 15:24 To: James Users List Subject: Re: Secure Password Authentication (SPA) I'm not sure whether this helps that specific Microsoft protocol, but http://jcifs.samba.org has a Java library that can help Java applications integrate with Window-domain logins (NTLM). Looking at the link you sent briefly, it seems like NTLM is the basis of SPA, so then in theory jCIFS should be able to help. -- Serge Knystautas President Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com p. 301.656.5501 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spencer, Brent wrote: > Does "James" support Microsoft Secure Password Authentication (SPA/AUTH MSN) > for SMTP (smtp.email.msn.com) communication - > http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154? > > If not, do you know of any Java based application that does? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
