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On May 31, 2004, at 3:55 PM, James Thoms wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has found a work around for apple's
> mail.app(the
> default mail client) problem.
> Seems like it doesn't do authentication properly.
>
> I get 004-05-31 20:25:09 plain authenticator failed 535 Incorrect
> authentication data.
>
> http://www.talkaboutmac.com/group/comp.sys.mac.comm/messages/
> 333971.html
>
>
> my exim.conf file has the following:
>
> begin authenticators
>
> plain:
> driver = plaintext
> public_name = PLAIN
> server_condition = "${perl{smtpauth}}"
> server_set_id = $2
>
> login:
> driver = plaintext
> public_name = LOGIN
> server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::"
> server_condition = "${perl{smtpauth}}"
> server_set_id = $1
>
> Is there anyway to force this client to use AUTH LOGIN instead of AUTH
> PLAIN?
>
> Does anyone know of a fix to this problem. Granted the percentage of
> OSX
> users out there is pretty small but I'm thinking there must be a fix to
> something as serious as this.
I use mail and have no problems with it and exim whatsoever. My
authenticators are slightly different, and both work (although I use
the cram-md5 one now, I did test both when I set it up some time ago):
begin authenticators
plain_login:
driver = plaintext
public_name = LOGIN
server_prompts = Username:: : Password::
# only show on TLS-protected connections
server_advertise_condition = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{no}{yes}}
server_condition =
${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/domains/smtp-auth.pwd}\
{${if eq{$value}{$2}{yes}{no}}}{no}}
server_set_id = $1
cram_md5_login:
driver = cram_md5
public_name = CRAM-MD5
server_advertise_condition = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{no}{yes}}
server_secret =
${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/domains/smtp-auth.pwd}{$value}fail}
server_set_id = $1
I don't inlcude a PLAIN authenticator at all (I guess that's one way of
forcing them to use LOGIN).
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