Is there any documentation available about PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN? All I can find 
are SMTP transcripts about connecting to Gmail.

Best regards,
Andris Reinman

> On 6 Oct 2017, at 21:24, Brandon Long via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
> 
> I still prefer our sasl extension, PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN instead, since you can 
> then use it for imap/pop/smtp simply.
> 
> Or focus on oauth...
> 
> On Oct 6, 2017 7:57 AM, "Michael Peddemors" <mich...@linuxmagic.com> wrote:
> SMTP Auth Scanners are easier to stop, which is why there are more IMAP 
> scanners being seen in the wild.
> 
> But that is why we are pushing forward on our CID implementations..
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-storey-smtp-client-id/
> 
> Can't really block AUTH attempts strictly by 'firewall' or IP rules, as a bot 
> could be operating out of shared or dynamic space, which would mean that you 
> effectively block legitimate users from accessing email.
> 
> We actually have a RATS-AUTH list designed to report on IP(s) used for AUTH 
> attacks, the broken bots are easier to pick up.
> 
> But this isn't a 'Chinese' thing only, we see lot's of these attacks coming 
> from everywhere, including Amazon AWS etc..
> 
> 
>> On 17-10-06 05:30 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
>>> On 06/10/17 10:51, Otto J. Makela wrote:
>>> Are you keeping an eye out for (mostly Chinese) botnets doing slow IMAP 
>>> scans,
>>> using scraped email addresses and apparently going through whole 
>>> dictionaries?
>> 
>> I haven't seen them.  But we are getting a lot more SMTP auth scanners
>> than we used to.
>> 
>> We just drop them in the firewall for a bit.    We've dropped about 300
>> IPv4 addresses in the last 6 hours.
>> 
>> 
>> Tim
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