Re: Help on CRAM-MD5

On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:41:06 -0600 "@lbutlr via dovecot" dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:

What is the reason for wanting to enable CRAM-MD5? That was intended to use on unsecured connections; you should not be allowing authentication on unsecured connections in 2019.

Establish a secure submission on port 587 or smtps on 465 and do not use CRAM-MD5 at all.

Possibly a backwards compatibility thing? (eg: legacy mail settings migrating to a new dovecot server). It get's difficult to argue the need for changing settings en-masse to a full customer base all at once ...

For a while iPhones wanted to default to CRAM-MD5 as well...