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Author: Tony Finch
Date:  
To: Erik Myllymaki
CC: Exim-Users \(E-mail\)
Subject: Re: [exim] secure, authenticated SMTP with exim and Outlook [Express]
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Erik Myllymaki wrote:
>
> Works great with Thunderbird, but I can't get it to work with Outlook or
> Outlook Express:
>
> Login authenticator failed 535 Incorrect authentication data


> #   The LOGIN mechanism is not a standard but is used in many programs.
> #   It doesn't provide any info on the AUTH command; but responds to
> #   prompts.  Some clients are reputedly -very- sensitive to exact spelling
> #   of the prompts.  (Unsurprisingly, Outlook Express is reported to be
> #   among them.)
> login:
>     driver              = plaintext
>     public_name         = LOGIN
>     server_prompts      = Username : Password
>     server_condition    = ${perl {getPw} {$1} {mail} }
>     server_set_id       = $1


You need to change this to:

    server_prompts    = <| Username: | Password:


Tony.
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