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Mark LOGIN and PLAIN as DEPRECATED
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schengawegga committed Aug 5, 2023
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**DEPRECATED**
This authentication method is no longer secure.
This authentication method is no longer secure and should be avoided.

The CRAM-MD5 authentication method has been superseded by the DIGEST-MD5_
method in terms of security. It is provided here for compatibility with
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**DEPRECATED**
This authentication method is no longer secure.
This authentication method is no longer secure and should be avoided.

The DIGEST-MD5 authentication method uses `RSA Data Security Inc.`_'s MD5
Message Digest algorithm. It is considered a more secure method of SMTP
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.. _RFC-4120: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4120
.. _krb5: https://pecl.php.net/package/krb5

LOGIN
LOGIN (DEPRECATED)
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**DEPRECATED**
This authentication method is no longer secure and should be avoided.

The LOGIN authentication method encrypts the user's password using the
Base64_ encoding scheme. Because decrypting a Base64-encoded string is
trivial, LOGIN is not considered a secure authentication method and should
be avoided.
trivial.

.. _Base64: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php

PLAIN
PLAIN (DEPRECATED)
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**DEPRECATED**
This authentication method is no longer secure and should be avoided.

The PLAIN authentication method sends the user's password in plain text.
This method of authentication is not secure and should be avoided.

SCRAM
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