On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 eichin@??? wrote:
> First, I made a change to the sources that made the separator for
> "server_prompts" a semicolon instead of a colon.
No need. This setting will do what you want:
server_prompts = Username:: : Password::
Or even
server_prompts = <; Username: ; Password:
> Lastly, while I was working out these difficulties, I noticed that
> Outlook would respond faithfully to an offer of "250 AUTH NTLM", with
> "AUTH NTLM". I'd send "334", and get back "NTLMSSP" base-64 encoded. So
> I poked around the 'net for information on this acronym.
I have not previously heard of the NTLM authentication method. If there
is a specification for it, I will take a look at at and consider whether
it could be added to Exim at some point. If there is no specification
for it, there is not much I can do.
> allow fairly secure mail transport from Windows clients to exim (eg, the
> mail itself will be encrypted during the transfer).
Encrypted transfer and authentication are independent. Exim (from
release 3.20) supports the standard STARTTLS mechanism for encrypted
transfer.
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