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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jens Lang wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> ---Reply to mail from Philip Hazel about [Exim] SMTP AUTH problems
>
> >> I?m having problems in using the SMTP AUTH feature implemented in exim.
> > The server you are connecting to is broken. The correct syntax it should
> > be using is
> > SMTP<< 250-charente.de
> > 250-AUTH LOGIN
> > ^
> > ^
> > ^
> > 250-PIPELINING
> > 250 8BITMIME
> > See RFC 2554, section 3.
> Thank you very much for your fast reply. I had also took a glance at this
> rfc and told my uplink?s system admin about this, but he could not believe
> it ("qmail is well known for always being RFC compliant"). With your
> opinion it will be much easier to convince him about this, I suppose. :)
Qmail breaks RFCs in other areas. It also doesn't correct delay about
certain delivery errors, it just retries with out delay hammering the poor
mail server!
Also, I don't believe that SMTP AUTH is a standard part of Qmail. It
was probably a patch, and probably not a very good one. There might be
multiple SMTP AUTH patches for Qmail.
Tom
