On Aug 12, 2016, at 8:45 AM, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote: The knee-jerk response is that it's a security issue. A few second's thought shows that it's not revealing anything that the person/software issuing a 'post -snoop' doesn't already have access to. Probably not a bad idea, as it drastically reduces the time to debug a Homer Simpson "D'Oh!" moment when you finally realize it's sending an incorrect user/password pair (been there, done that, when we migrated our mailstore from a local solution to Google Mail... :)
Another advantage is that -snoop can point out base64 encoding errors. Not that I really expect to trip over that in this day and age. Then again, considering the silly SMTP server errors I still keep running into? You never know ...
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