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Re: exim SMTP Authentication



On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:05:27PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>  Adam
> 
>   Thanks for the tip.  I have exim4, with exim4-daemon-light, installed and am 
> still fighting to get AUTH working.  Here is what I have found.
> 
> Telnet smtp.intergate.com 25
> EHLO intergate.com
> 250-corpweb.trip.net Hello host-69-95-14-38.roc.choiceone.net [69.95.14.38], 
> ple
> ased to meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE 40000000
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
> 
> seems to indicate cram-md5 'should' work but here is what I get when I try to 
> send from this address:
>  cram_md5 authenticator failed H=smtp.intergate.com [216.139.64.8] 535 5.7.0 
> authentication failed
> if I comment the cram_md5 authenticator out, leaving only the plain and login 
> authenticators I get (trying to get on the exim4 mail list)
> pkg-exim4-users-request@lists.alioth.debian.org R=smarthost 
> T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mailer after
>  RCPT TO:<pkg-exim4-users-request@lists.alioth.debian.org>: host 
> smtp.intergate.com [216.139.64.8]: 550 5.7.1 
> <pkg-exim4-users-request@lists.alioth.debian.org>.
> .. Relaying denied. Proper authentication required.
> 
> Going through the exim4 HOWTO I see that they say I need to add
> A0723:  You need to have this setting in your PLAIN authenticator:
> 
>    server_prompts = :
> I did add that but it didn't seem to change anything.  :-(
> 
> Would you know if I have to define something for the following line
> .ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
> 
> From the servers reply it seems they don't run TLS so everything has to go 
> plaintext.  I can't find anything in the, rather obtuse, exim4 docs about 
> this,
> 
> IF(?) my request to join the exim4 mail list got through, I'll hopefully ask 
> these questions there.
> 
> I am forced to use Kmail now so hope this gets to the list.  All my other 
> mails have not been showing up due to this AUTH problem.
> 

Could you perhaps be over-complicating things?  Could it be just a 
question of removing "noauth" from the /etc/ppp/peers/??? file?

-- 
David Jardine

"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it."  -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)



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