Hi
I have been able to get Eudora to work with only PLAIN and LOGIN and not
CRAM-MD5.
I can get them to work 1 at at time, so I know Eudora can authenticate with
either.
With regards to Cram-MD5 I still havr to a little work on how the
authentication is processed.
At 09:36 AM 00/09/06, you wrote:
>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.
>
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>Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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>
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