Re: exim SMTP AUTH

[Fred Clausen <fred.clausen@xinitsystems.com>]

Hi Antony,

Are you sure that exim is not expecting encrypted passwords in the
/etc/exim/passwd file? I am not an exim expert but I suspect that may be
an issue. You might want to paste the relevant snippet from your exim
config file.

Cheers, Fred.

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:25, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to set up SMTP AUTH with the LOGIN method.  I see AUTH LOGIN as a
> response to EHLO.  I have created /etc/exim/passwd with contents:
> bob    Bob123
> 
> I converted the username and password to base64, for testing:
> echo -n '\0bob\0Bob123'| mimencode
> XDBib2JcMEJvYjEyMw==
> 
> 
> This is what I get:
> www:/etc/exim# exim -bh 127.0.0.1
> 
> **** SMTP testing session as if from host 127.0.0.1
> **** Not for real!
> 
> >>> host in host_lookup? yes (*)
> >>> looking up host name for 127.0.0.1
> >>> IP address lookup yielded www
> >>> Alias www.bob.com
> >>> Alias localhost
> >>> Alias localhost.localdomain
> >>> host in host_reject? no (option unset)
> >>> host in host_reject_recipients? no (option unset)
> >>> host in auth_hosts? no (option unset)
> >>> host in sender_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset)
> >>> host in receiver_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset)
> >>> host in helo_verify? no (option unset)
> >>> host in helo_accept_junk_hosts? no (option unset)
> 220 www.bob.com ESMTP Exim 3.35 #1 Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:10:07 -0700
> ehlo pulse
> 250-www.bob.com Hello www [127.0.0.1]
> 250-SIZE
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-AUTH LOGIN
> 250 HELP
> auth login XDBib2JcMEJvYjEyMw==
> 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
> 
> >>> login authenticator:
> >>>   $1 = \0bob\0Bob123
> >>> expanded string: 0
> 535 Incorrect authentication data
> LOG: Authentication failed for www (bob) [127.0.0.1]: 535 Incorrect
> authentication data
> quit
> 221 www.bob.com closing connection
> 
> Any ideas?  I've looked in the exim docs and have no idea where I'm going
> wrong.
> 
> Antony