Broken kio_smtp

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Sat Apr 12 10:35:40 BST 2003


Am Saturday 12 April 2003 00:39 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> kmail, or whatever app is running the slave, should probably disable that
> setting in its own account information so it doesn't try again and again to
> authenticate ...
For that the slave still need to tell the app instead of simply ignoring the 
fact.
>
> > As you can see, people already fell prey to it.
>
> what harm, exactly, did it do? i can see the harm the new approach does: it
> makes people think something is broken with the code!
A password is sent over the net in plain text that isn't used for anything.
(that's what Marc said somewhere)

Greetings, Stephan

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