| Client Name
and version |
SMTP | POP3 | IMAP4 | IMSP/ACAP | LDAP | Comments |
| Pine 4.x | CRAM-MD5,
LOGIN, GSSAPI, KERBEROS_V4? |
? | CRAM-MD5,
LOGIN, GSSAPI, KERBEROS_V4? |
? | - | |
| Mulberry v1.4.3 | PLAIN,
CRAM-MD5, KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 |
PLAIN,
CRAM-MD5, KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 |
PLAIN,
CRAM-MD5, KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 |
PLAIN,
CRAM-MD5, KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 |
PLAIN,
CRAM-MD5, KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 |
LDAP v3 is planning |
| Execmail 5.2 (formerly Simeon) | PLAIN,
KERBEROS_V4, CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5, GSSAPI |
PLAIN,
KERBEROS_V4, CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5, GSSAPI |
PLAIN,
KERBEROS_V4, CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5, GSSAPI |
Same as IMAP4/- | + | POP3 supports also APOP |
| Eudora Pro 4.3 | CRAM-MD5,
PLAIN, LOGIN |
Kerberos_V4,
RPA |
CRAM-MD5,
Kerberos_V4 |
- | ? | POP3 supports also APOP |
| PalmOS Eudora | CRAM-MD5 in next release | APOP in next release | N/A | N/A | ? | |
| Outlook,
Outlook Express 4.0 |
LOGIN,
NTLM, DPA |
LOGIN,
NTLM, DPA |
LOGIN,
NTLM, DPA |
- | - | Supports draft-10 of SMTP AUTH spec (i.e. "AUTH=", but not "AUTH ") |
| Nestcape Messenger 4.6 | PLAIN | ? | PLAIN | ? | ? | |
| Paladin | CRAM-MD5 | - | CRAM-MD5 | - | - | |
| Gnus | ? | ? | PLAIN,
CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, KERBEROS_V4, GSSAPI |
? | Patch for SMTP: CRAM-MD5 exists
Also support STARTTLS |
|
| Control Data's IMAPSP | PLAIN, SKEY, CRAM-MD5 | - | PLAIN, SKEY, CRAM-MD5 | - | - | IMAP4rev1/SMTP MAPI service providers |
| Orangsoft Winbiff 2.30 | PLAIN,
LOGIN, CRAM-MD5 |
LOGIN | LOGIN,
CRAM-MD5 |
- | + | POP3 also supports APOP |
| FetchMail 5.0.3 | ? | OTP,
RPA |
OTP,
GSSAPI (RFC 1731), KERBEROS_V4, CRAM-MD5 |
- | POP3 also supports APOP and KPOP authentication.
RPA stands for "Remote Password Authentication", proprietary CompuServe SASL |
|
| Pegasus Mail 3.12 | CRAM-MD5,
LOGIN |
- | ? | ? | ? | POP3 supports APOP. |
| MH UCI 6.8.3 | ? | - | ? | ? | ? | POP3 supports APOP &
KPOP |
| nmh 1.0.4 | See CMU SASL library | See CMU SASL library | ? | ? | ? | POP3 supports security layer |
| PMMail | ? | RPA,
APOP |
? | ? | ? | |
| Akmail | CRAM-MD5 | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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