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On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 23:47 -0800, Rob Banz wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I would argue that it's out of scope -- credential management should </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">be taken care of by your credential management system, be it through a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">web interface or whatever. Even if it were to be an accepted spec, the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">chances of all of the client-writers implementing it, and in a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">reasonable way, are slim to none.</FONT>
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Everyone need not implement it. <BR>
If the protocol is available , I definitely know thunderbird will have at least one extension within 2 days :-) <BR>
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Most smaller companies I know of use username passwords only for mail
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