Broken kio_smtp

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 12 April 2003 11:35, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 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)

Refering to the new version if I'm not mistaken.

Cheers,
Waldo
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