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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2007-04-06 18:01:39 +0000
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2007-04-06 18:01:39 +0000
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Flank APOP by comments about it being insecure.
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@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ challenge conforming to RFC1938, \fIfetchmail\fR will use your
password as a pass phrase to generate the required response. This
avoids sending secrets over the net unencrypted.
.PP
-Compuserve's RPA authentication (similar to APOP) is supported. If you
+Compuserve's RPA authentication is supported. If you
compile in the support, \fIfetchmail\fR will try to perform an RPA pass-phrase
authentication instead of sending over the password en clair if it
detects "@compuserve.com" in the hostname.
@@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ Legal authentication types are 'any', 'password', 'kerberos',
(only for POP3), 'ntlm', 'ssh', 'external' (only IMAP).
The 'password' type specifies
authentication by normal transmission of a password (the password may be
-plain text or subject to protocol-specific encryption as in APOP);
+plain text or subject to protocol-specific encryption as in CRAM-MD5);
\&'kerberos' tells \fIfetchmail\fR to try to get a Kerberos ticket at the
start of each query instead, and send an arbitrary string as the
password; and 'gssapi' tells fetchmail to use GSSAPI authentication.
@@ -2757,7 +2757,7 @@ RFC 1081, RFC 1225, RFC 1460, RFC 1725, RFC 1734, RFC 1939, RFC 1957,
RFC 2195, RFC 2449.
.TP 5
APOP:
-RFC 1460, RFC 1725, RFC 1939.
+RFC 1939.
.TP 5
RPOP:
RFC 1081, RFC 1225.