Re: authentication, outgoing, IMAP

Tomas By <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:54:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.wanderlust.general
Message-ID <87r2rtwrp0.wl-tomas__17676.3647854843$1513508007$gmane$org@basun.net>
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 06:53:34 +0100, Kazuhiro Ito wrote:
> Why you need to change?

Security?

When using webmail, I had/have the impression the password is also
encrypted. I thought this was standard these days. It seems risky to
send anything confidential like a password in clear text.


> As authentication mechanism, CLEAR authentication sends plain password
> to a server.

So... any ideas how I can debug it? It uses openssl?

/Tomas