On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ephraim Silverberg wrote:
> When telneting from a remote host to the Exim server (port 25), everything
> goes well with the authentication process including getting the
> "250-AUTH LOGIN" response after "EHLO"; however, when trying to send e-mail
> Netscape 4.x on the same host, it apparently never tries to authenticate and,
> hence, gets the standard "refused relay (host) to [...]" log entry.
>
> What must I do to convince Netscape to authenticate with the Exim server?
Configure the server to use PLAIN authentication. LOGIN is a Pine/c-client
thing. I suspect Netscape uses PLAIN, which is defined in an RFC.
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