On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Brent Russell Langille wrote:
> > Because it has not followed the RFC. Exim looks for what the RFC says it
> > should look for, namely
> >
> > 250-AUTH LOGIN
> >
> > Note the crucial difference.
> i would never have found that. thank you very much. is there any thing i
> can do about this?
The output you showed contained
250-AUTH
250-AUTH=LOGIN
I know that some MTAs output sequences like
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN ...
250-AUTH=LOGIN
in order to support both standard-conforming and some non-standard
clients. (The = format was used by some clients at one time; perhaps
this MTA is trying to support such clients.) Maybe the MTA you are
dealing with is trying to do that, but is misconfigured? You could try
contacting its administrator.
Philip
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