Re: [Exim] Faking authenticated senders while testing ACLs

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:40:36 -0400, Stephen Gran <steve@???> wrote:
> > I want to run a relay test for my acls. I am selectively blocking
> > certain authenticated senders from sending mail to some fixed
> > destinations.
> >
> > How would I be using "exim -bhc" by faking a $authenticated_id?
>
> After EHLO <hostname> use AUTH <AUTH Method>.
> Use this perl snippet from the exim docs to get a Base-64 encoded string
> to send:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use MIME::Base64;
> printf ("%s", encode_base64(eval "\"$ARGV[0]\""));
>

Thanks for the pointer. It prompted me to check the correct section of
the spec. This worked for me:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Base64;
printf ("%s", encode_base64("\0$ARGV[0]\0$ARGV[1]"));

Thanks!

- Sandip

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