1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: login-options 5Arg: <options> 6Protocols: IMAP LDAP POP3 SMTP 7Help: Server login options 8Added: 7.34.0 9Category: imap pop3 smtp auth 10Multi: single 11See-also: 12 - user 13Example: 14 - --login-options 'AUTH=*' imap://example.com 15--- 16 17# `--login-options` 18 19Specify the login options to use during server authentication. 20 21You can use login options to specify protocol specific options that may be 22used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support login 23options. For more information about login options please see RFC 2384, 24RFC 5092 and the IETF draft 25https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-earhart-url-smtp-00 26 27Since 8.2.0, IMAP supports the login option `AUTH=+LOGIN`. With this option, 28curl uses the plain (not SASL) `LOGIN IMAP` command even if the server 29advertises SASL authentication. Care should be taken in using this option, as 30it sends your password over the network in plain text. This does not work if 31the IMAP server disables the plain `LOGIN` (e.g. to prevent password 32snooping). 33
