X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/cfc525a9b85207225cb4071d1d3b01e8d1db2424..6cebd8f635da356285799b484e9005f74e4b706b:/man/send.man diff --git a/man/send.man b/man/send.man index 88fd9c3c..9bb28972 100644 --- a/man/send.man +++ b/man/send.man @@ -141,8 +141,11 @@ user (but the \*(lq.netrc\*(rq file can be used to store this password). and the the `\-user' switch can be used to select a authorization userid to provide to SASL other than the default. -Currently SASL security layers are not supported for SMTP. The SASL -SMTP code in nmh will always negotiate an unencrypted connection. +Currently SASL security layers are not supported for SMTP. nmh's SMTP SASL code +will always negotiate an unencrypted connection. This means that while the SMTP +authentication can be encrypted, the subsequent data stream can not. This is in +contrast to nmh's POP3 SASL support, where encryption is supported for both the +authentication and the data stream. The files specified by the profile entry \*(lqAliasfile:\*(rq and any additional alias files given by the `\-alias aliasfile' switch will be