Clarified post.man and send.man for those not completely up on SASL terminology.

[mmh] / man / post.man

diff --git a/man/post.man b/man/post.man
index 69374ce..23841f7 100644 (file)
--- a/man/post.man
+++ b/man/post.man
@@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ 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.
 
 .Fi
 ^%etcdir%/mts.conf~^nmh mts configuration file