CRAM-MD5 support in Outlook Express?

From: John Fox (readbsd_at_mind.net)
Date: 04/13/04

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    Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:02:26 -0700
To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org

    Hello,

    We're a small ISP (~13,000 email accounts) and I would really like to see
    us move away from cleartext passwords for our POP3 service. I am currently
    interested in using CRAM-MD5 authentication, as I already know I will be
    installing Courier's POP3 daemon, and I've read that it supports CRAM-MD5.

    I mentioned this idea on a different mailing list, and was told that
    Outlook Express (which I *must* support) does not have CRAM-MD5 support.
    However, a friend who is knowledgeable in crypto field told me that
    CRAM-MD5 has been around a long time, and that he doubts that OE lacks
    support for it.

    So I'm writing with two hopes:

    1) That someone will confirm or disconfirm the prior assertion that
    OE does not support CRAM-MD5.

    2) That if such support is lacking, perhaps someone else can give
    me a different idea for getting rid of plaintext authentication
    for POP3.

    With thanks and regards,

    John 

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