On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:21:57PM +0200, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Scott Kitterman wrote:
unecessary if you are using a shared secret mechanism.
With CRAM-MD5 a "man in the middle" could hijack the session.
Also, IIRC, there is a tendency to end up storing the password in plaintext
at the mail server, which is not good.
Regards,
Paddy
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