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Re: smtp authorization w/ exim



On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:15:52PM -0700, Cam wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> My Yahoo! account now requires me to authorize when sending messages
> (LOGIN
> or PLAIN), anyway, I'm trying to setup exim so that i can send messages
> w/ it   
> (right now i'm doing this w/ kmail), but so far no luck... here's what
> I've
> done:
> 
> <snip>
> #i just uncommented the 'authenticate_hosts' line and changed
> #it so that it was my yahoo server
> remote_smtp:
>   driver = smtp
>   authenticate_hosts = smtp.mail.yahoo.com
> </snip>
> 
> and
> <snip>
> plain:
>   driver = plaintext
>   public_name = PLAIN
>   client_send = ^cmatheson3^this_is_my_password
> </snip>
> 

You could try the following, it is working for me (not Yahoo):

,----
| login:
|   driver = plaintext
|   public_name = LOGIN
|   client_send = ": username: password"
`----

HTH
Martin

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