I think your only hope for now is this:
http://www.storrow.org/Software/SPA_Auth/

It's going to take some work to compile properly - but according to the page
it has been used successfuly under a few different email/news clients.

Good luck - let us know!

-dallas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chicalinux" <soror_rc@yahoo.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:15 PM
Subject: Email Password Authentication Issue


> Hi:
>
> I am having the following issue. I recently signed on with MSN Broadband
> DSL. They do not support Linux but thanks God and some good books I made
it
> to work flawlessly. However, I do not have access to email/newsgroups
> because they use a method of secure authentication called "Secure Password
> Authentication" or something like that. It is not like CHAP/SSL. It is
> different and the email clients that I use do not support it: Kmail,
> Evolution, Sylpheed... I think it has something to do with the .net
password
> authentication protocol.
>
> Do any of you guys know anything about this and if Linux has or is
developing
> support for this? Any response will be greatly appreciated. I am so in the
> dark :-)
>
> Thanks,
> sarina
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