Thanks a lot.
Regarding to the mechanisms = login plain cram-md5, the cram-md5 is used for
the noplaintext?
What is the difference between using the "plain" and using the "login"?
Regards
Bilal
--- On Wed, 1/18/12, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote:
> From: Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org>
> Subject: Re: noplaintext, What is the required to use it? Anyother method
> than TLS?
> To: "bilal ghayyad" <bilmar...@yahoo.com>, postfix-users@postfix.org
> Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 2:01 PM
> On 1/18/2012 12:44 PM, bilal ghayyad
> wrote:
> > Hi All;
> >
> > Other than using TLS, how I can protect my self to
> make the password not possible to be discover?
> >
> > What is the required to use the noplaintext? Because
> if I used it, I am getting error that it is not a valid
> mechanism, is there any required library to be installed so
> I can use the noplaintext?
> >
> > Do I have to use the SASL of the Dovecot to be able to
> use noplaintext?
> >
> > Appreciate the kindly help
> >
> > Regards
> > Bilal
>
> To use noplaintext in postfix, the AUTH provider -- Dovecot
> in this
> case -- must be configured to support some non-plaintext
> mechanism,
> eg. dovecot.conf:
> auth default {
> mechanisms = login plain cram-md5
> ...
> (followups for dovecot auth questions on the dovecot-users
> list).
>
> Also note that some popular email clients only support
> PLAIN and/or
> LOGIN and won't be able to send mail with noplaintext.
>
>
>
> -- Noel Jones
>
