At 9:36 +0100 9/6/00, Philip Hazel 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.
What version of Eudora? (If it is someone else's instance, the version is
encoded into the message ID which Eudora creates...see the first few
characters.)
In this sample of a message I sent some time ago, I was using 4.3.2
(Macintosh, of course):
Message-Id: <p04320402b5bd33d90698@???>
(I suspect the p is "paid"...I think it showed up in 4.3).
Current is 4.3.3 on Macintosh (and I think 4.3.2 on Windows, but I am not
sure). There is a 5.0 beta series ongoing.
The authentication stuff in Eudora has been changing rapidly (and working
better in newer versions based only on my seeing fewer complaints).
--John
