Re: test Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:35:47 -0500

Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <[email protected]>
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On 2025/06/17 4:11 AM, Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-users wrote:
> I am slightly surprised Exim ended up going with LOGIN rather than the
> much simpler PLAIN, perhaps this choice was made by some underlying
> library, ...

The server offered both; the Exim client is configured with at least LOGIN -
but if configured with both then LOGIN is first in the config so took
precedence.  Anyone caring could just swap them.

The actual implementations for the two are so similar that they are
handled by a single driver.

-- 
Cheers,
   Jeremy

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