Re: [Exim] Colon in PW & SMTP AUTH

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, ian wrote:

> example: tmp:45!
>
> If I have the password set this way SMTP AUTH does not work. If I change the
> password to tmp45! instead it works fine.
>
> What is going on? Is : just a bad character or is there a bug in Exim?
>
> I'm running Debian unstable with exim v. 3.33 #1.

i'm not noticing this. just tried, 3.33, both plain and login
authentication works (and works correctly) (my helper doesn't
yet understand cram-md5 so i didn't try that)

how do your authenticators look like ? (you're not using
extract{foo}{:} to get the password from the pwfile, are you?)

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