60 Seconds of WIP, 14 September 2023
Today we have a tidbit from Run Your Own Mail Server, where I discuss debugging submission at the command line.
Don’t leap straight to OpenSSL or a TLS-aware netcat, though. Submission doesn’t take a straight username and password. Instead, you need a login string. If you’re supporting Microsoft clients, you need two. A login string is a precisely formatted username and/or password, encoded in Base64. Base64 is not an encryption method, but rather a way to transparently transfer binaries as plain text. Passwords are not binary, but they should include special characters that protocols might…
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