Re: [Exim] AUTH with freshly compiled exim 3.32

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Autor: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] AUTH with freshly compiled exim 3.32
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:40:37PM +0200, jens-ingo brodesser wrote:
> i just compiled exim-3.32 with, pam, cram-md5 and plaintext
> authentification. when i test the compile at runtime with
>
> #telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 sys2 ESMTP Exim 3.32 #1 Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:33:58 +0200
> HELO itsme
> 250 sys2.all2all.org Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
> AUTH
> 504 mechanism not supported
>
> i get this awful 504 reply, did i forget something during compile time ?


No, you forgot to read about
a) SMTP extensions (also known as ESMTP)
b) the SMTP AUTH extension

In fact, Exim is in error, here, it should have given
500 Command unknown
as the client has not done the correct negotiation for the extension.

MBM

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