On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> As far as I can tell, it looks like the client isn't even trying to
> authenticate. Is that what you see?
Yup.
> SMTP<< NOOP
> 250 OK
What a stupid client. What's the point of that?
> SMTP<< HELO fringe.oddprocess.org
Well, there you go. If the client sends HELO, it is speaking unextended
SMTP. Exim won't advertise any SMTP extensions (which include AUTH)
unless the client starts off with EHLO. This is as defined in the RFCs.
The client is either broken, or doesn't support authentication.
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