Need help in understanding auth digest-md5 and realm

[Admin Beckspaced]

On 27.10.2017 20:35, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> On October 27, 2017 at 6:00 PM Admin Beckspaced <admin at beckspaced.com> wrote:
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>> Hello dovecot community,
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>> If someone could shed some light on this I would be more than grateful ;)
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>> Thanks & greetings
>> Becki
> We actually discovered that Android has a bug with DIGEST-MD5, which Google refuses to fix. Also DIGEST-MD5/CRAM-MD5 etc are not really good idea with SSL anyways.
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> Aki
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Hello Aki,
thanks for your reply ... so if there's a bug which Google won't fix 
it's perhaps best to not offer digest-md5?
what do you mean by it's not a good idea to use DIGEST-MD5/CRAM-MD5 with 
SSL?

Thanks & Greetings
Becki