On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Christi Alice Scarborough wrote:
> Monitoring the TCP connection shows that Eudora is sending
>
> AUTH PLAIN\r\n
>
> and attempting to send the base64 encoded auth data on the next line,
> by which time Exim has already failed. Am I doing something wrong?
Well, Eudora certainly is. The specification of PLAIN authentication
(RFC 2595) states that the auth data is sent on the same line as AUTH
PLAIN.
The LOGIN method expects its data on two subsequent inputs. Has Eudora
got confused between PLAIN and LOGIN?
There is, AFAIK, no published authentication mechanism that has just one
subsequent data line of plain text. However, Exim is highly flexible in
this regard. You can configure its plaintext authenticator to operate
like that if you want, by setting a suitable value in server_prompts.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
