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| -rw-r--r-- | src/mailman/mta/docs/authentication.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/mailman/mta/docs/authentication.txt b/src/mailman/mta/docs/authentication.txt index 9f494be61..9f78859a0 100644 --- a/src/mailman/mta/docs/authentication.txt +++ b/src/mailman/mta/docs/authentication.txt @@ -3,8 +3,17 @@ SMTP authentication =================== The SMTP server may require authentication. Mailman supports setting the SMTP -user name and password. When the user name and password match what's expected -by the server, everything is a-okay. +user name and password. The actual authentication mechanism used is +determined by Python's `smtplib module`_, which tries the more secure +`CRAM-MD5` method first, followed by the less secure mechanisms `PLAIN` and +`LOGIN`. + +When sending authentication data between Mailman and the MTA over an unsecured +network, the submission (mail) server should offer `CRAM-MD5` as mechanism to +have Python's `smtplib module` automatically choose the more secure mechanism. + +When the user name and password match what's expected by the server, +everything is a-okay. >>> mlist = create_list('test@example.com') @@ -54,3 +63,6 @@ But if the user name and password does not match, the connection will fail. bperson@example.com: (571, 'Bad authentication') >>> config.pop('auth') + + +.. _`smtplib module`: http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html |