[Exim] Re: exim authenticating with yahoo mail

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Autor: Derrick 'dman' Hudson
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Assumpte: [Exim] Re: exim authenticating with yahoo mail
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On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:32:30AM -0700, Andrew McCready wrote:
| As some of you may know, yahoo's smtp server requires
| authentication to send email. I've been trying to get
| this to work, but so far have been unsuccessful. (this
| is on exim running on my laptop, so I'm the only
| person sending email from it). I tried using the plain
| authentication, but I'm not sure I set my
| 'client_send' string correctly. Here's the
| authentication config I have:

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|   plain:
|     driver = plaintext
|     public_name = PLAIN
|     client_send = "^ajmccready@???^pass"

|
| (where pass is replaced with my actual password)

|
| I did some packet analysis and found that exim does
| send

|
|     AUTH PLAIN <scrambled>

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| (where I assume the scrambled stuff is a md5 of the
| client_send string) and gets back


No, it's the string '\0<user>\0<pass>' encoded with base64. (\0 is
NUL, <user> and <pass> are replaced by your username and password)

|     535 authorization failed (#5.7.0)

|
| Any idea whats wrong?


Did you specify the correct username and password?

-D

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