Re: [Exim] pine smtp auth with exim

At 14:05 -0000 Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>At 18:53 +0530 2002/12/23, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>eximlists@??? (Giuliano Gavazzi) writes:
>>> I did that a go but it did not work (yes, I sighupped exim). Still
>>> esmtp and no asmtp. I notice a difference in our SSL though, you have
>>> TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128 while I have TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168, I wonder if
>>> pine gets stressed out by mine and thinks better than authenticating..
>>
>>Nope. RC4-MD5:128 = you are likely using OE or Mozilla?
>
>not me, Matt.

That's me, running Pine under Windows (I was feeling pathological; my
hangover's cleared up a bit now :) You might want to set tls_dhparam for
openssl-based Pines to be able to use an even longer cipher name!

>Anyway, the solution: anywhere in pine.conf it uses $USER (capital)
>to refer to the user, not $username, I did that and it is finally
>asking me for the password. Good. Never trust what you read on the
>web..

How interesting.. thanks for that; I'll try that here on our login boxes.

Matt