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→XML: Some updates to auth etc.
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<username>%EMAILLOCALPART%</username>
Send password in the clear
(dangerous, if SSL isn't used either).
AUTH PLAIN, LOGIN etc.or protocol-native login. "password-encrypted", "secure" (deprecated): Auto-negotiate a A secure encrypted password mechanism.
Can be CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5. Not NTLM.
"NTLM":
Use Kerberos / GSSAPI,
a single-signon mechanism used for big sites.
"client-ip-based":
The server recognizes this user based on the IP address.
No authentication
Compatibility note: Thunderbird 3.0 accepts only "plain" and "secure". It will ignore the whole XML file, if other values are given.
<authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
<pop3>
<!-- remove the following and leave to client/user? -->
<socketType>STARTTLS</socketType> <!-- see above -->
<username>%EMAILLOCALPART%</username> <!-- if smtp-auth -->
<!-- smtp-auth (RFC 2554, 4954) or other auth mechanism.
For values, see incoming.
It will ignore the whole XML file, if other values are given.
-->
<authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
<!-- remove the following and leave to client/user? -->
<addThisServer>true</addThisServer>
<useGlobalPreferredServer>true</useGlobalPreferredServer>
</identity>
<!-- see description . Not yet supported. -->
<inputField key="USERNAME" label="Screen name"></inputField>
<inputField key="GRANDMA" label="Grandma">Elise Bauer</inputField>
