On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dennis Pinckard wrote:
> Well, what do you know, it works!
>
> Thanks John.
>
> I was using AUTH command once I telnet'ed in and EXIM reported no
> authentication.
>
> Using the ehlo command, I get the AUTH PLAIN LOGIN message. Looks like
> it's working now.
AUTH is only supported by ESMTP, I beleive, so you'd have to issue an
EHLO (as opposed to just a HELO or no greeting at all) for it to work.
>
> Now I get to attempt to get it to authenticate against the Bynari LDAP
> server, or my main Linux/Samba LDAP server.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-admin@??? [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org]On
> Behalf Of John Horne
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:22 AM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: RE: [Exim] Need help setting up SMTP AUTH
>
>
> On 10-Apr-2002 at 13:08:58 Dennis Pinckard wrote:
> > I did see that version 4 has an auth_advertise_hosts option that must
> be
> > enabled.
> >
> > I set it to '*' in the configure file
> >
> It has by default a value of '*', so you shouldn't need to set it unless
> you
> are trying to exclude hosts from seeing the AUTH capability.
>
> > and tried the AUTH command again, but still no authentication.
> >
> Did you restart exim (send a HUP signal to its pid)?
>
> > What are the minimum settings to get Exim 4.02 to support SMTP AUTH?
> >
> 1) Enable the option in the Makefile (which you've done I gather);
> 2) Create the authenticators in the configure file (which I gather you
> have
> also done).
> 3) Restart exim.
>
> All I did then was:
>
> telnet 0 25
> Trying 0.0.0.0...
> Connected to 0.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk ESMTP Exim 4.02 Wed, 10 Apr 2002
> 15:17:56
> +0100
> ehlo localhost
> 250-jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
> 250-SIZE 52428800
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-AUTH CRAM-MD5
> 250 HELP
>
>
>
> John.
>
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