Re: [fetchmail] Fetchmail 6.1.1 can't login to a server that 5.9.14 can

Sunil Shetye <shetye(_at_)bombay(_dot_)retortsoft(_dot_)com>:
> Attached is a patch which changes the auth method to password if STLS
> fails.
Good implementation, bad strategy.  If the user requested end-to-end 
security, the correct behavior is *not* to fall back to sending a
password in clear; this might leak privileged information.

The correct behavior in this case is to fail noisily.  I'll take a patch
to do that.
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                <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>