On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:47:28PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:54:00PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
>> [...]
>>> But that line is just for testing anyways. It also doesn't work
>>> when I do a test outgoing email from Outlook Express.
>> [...]
>> Iirc there are some clients that require the MTA to advertise
>> "AUTH=LOGIN" instead of "AUTH LOGIN", why don't you try with AUTH
>> PLAIN, which is a
>> proper standard?
> I'd love to, however my (l)users all love Microsoft - I understand that AUTH
> LOGIN is correct for a MS client?
I do not know, I'd try it. Today even Pegasus Mail supports CRAM MD5
and TLS encryption.
> >> Is the format of my /etc/exim/passwd okay? I've tried uncrypted
> >> passwords (as above), and copying and pasting a crypted password
> >> from /etc/shadow also doesn't work.
>> The example authenticators in exim3 (Debian woody) expect a colon
>> separated file with encrypted passwords, i.e.
>> bob:UAMw3v/VSBiEA
> Aha! That's it - but how do you encrypt Bob123 to give UAMw3v/VSBiEA? I
> tried copying password strings from /etc/shadow, but no dice...
That should work. I've used htpasswd.
To make sure you can doublecheck with
/usr/sbin/exim -be '${if crypteq{Bob123}{UAMw3v/VSBiEA}{yes}{no}}'
Could you post your auth-section (without comments)?
cu andreas
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