From 5a898e106a6f92ad2773a6525b0899cf906d2b3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Baker <peter@tastydiff.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:24:25 -0500
Subject: Explain actionamailer authentication types

---
 actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'actionmailer')

diff --git a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
index 0bf60a2c24..478ceda389 100644
--- a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
+++ b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
@@ -290,7 +290,9 @@ module ActionMailer #:nodoc:
   #   * <tt>:password</tt> - If your mail server requires authentication, set the password in this setting.
   #   * <tt>:authentication</tt> - If your mail server requires authentication, you need to specify the
   #     authentication type here.
-  #     This is a symbol and one of <tt>:plain</tt>, <tt>:login</tt>, <tt>:cram_md5</tt>.
+  #     This is a symbol and one of <tt>:plain</tt> (will send the password in the clear), <tt>:login</tt> (will
+  #     send password BASE64 encoded) or <tt>:cram_md5</tt> (combines a Challenge/Response mechanism to exchange
+  #     information and a cryptographic Message Digest 5 algorithm to hash important information)
   #   * <tt>:enable_starttls_auto</tt> - When set to true, detects if STARTTLS is enabled in your SMTP server
   #     and starts to use it.
   #
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