Christian can chime in, but PLAIN and LOGIN aren't considered secure authentication mechanisms (I believe secure refers to the authentication mechanism, not the underlying channel).
It's not just CRAM-MD5 - there's also NTLM, MSN, and GSSAPI, and probably a couple more that we don't support.
Christian can chime in, but PLAIN and LOGIN aren't considered secure authentication mechanisms (I believe secure refers to the authentication mechanism, not the underlying channel).
It's not just CRAM-MD5 - there's also NTLM, MSN, and GSSAPI, and probably a couple more that we don't support.