Re: exim4-SASL auth

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On 01/17/2010 09:58 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I am trying to follow this example:
> http://wiki.edseek.com/howto:exim4_courier
>
> and I get down to the part where you test saslauthd:
> Let's test our new server configuration again with swaks, actually performing
> authentication by specifying a valid username and password before closing the
> connection after successful authentication.
>
>
>   evie:/etc/exim4#  swaks -a -tls -q AUTH -s localhost -au jasonb
>
> and I get these lines:
> <~* 435 Unable to authenticate at present
>   ~>  AUTH PLAIN AHBiYwBteSxzdXMz
> <~* 435 Unable to authenticate at present
> *** No authentication type succeeded
>
>
> the earlier test for TLS worked:
> $ swaks -a -tls -q HELO -s localhost -au jasonb -ap '<>'
>
> what am I missing?
> I uncommented the lines in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
>    

What does /var/log/exim4/mainlog say when you try to authenticate?


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br