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
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loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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