Logwatch script for Cyrus and resulting questions

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Jan 30 07:55:32 EST 2004


Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

>>> I think I know what the difference between PLAIN and plain is (the first
>>> is a proper SASL mechanism, the latter isn't), but what's plaintext and
>>> why is it the only mechanism that doesn't log "User logged in"?
>>
>>
>> plaintext is the built-in authentication command: LOGIN for IMAP,
>> USER/PASS for POP3 and NNTP.
> 
> 
> Hmm, OK, so what's plain then?

I have to assume that its the same as PLAIN.


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