Re: exim SMTP Authentication

[Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com>]

David Jardine(david@jardine.de) is reported to have said:
> 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
<-- snip -->
> > 
> > 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

  If only it was that simple!  I had forgotton about the noauth in the
  peers files and tried 1st) removing it and 2nd) changing it to auth.
  It seems that applies to the server authenticating to me, not the
  other way around.

  Thanks anyway, I appreciate the the attempt.

  Wayne
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