Re[4]: [exim] Debugging 'Invalid base64 data"

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Autor: Felix Brack
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Assumpte: Re[4]: [exim] Debugging 'Invalid base64 data"
Fine! So I'm going to wait patiently for one of the next releases oft
that excellent software called exim.

thanks, Felix

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Felix

Philip Hazel wrote:

PH> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Felix Brack wrote:


>> Perhaps the answer to my question is: "There is no option that makes exim
>> log usernames or passwords due to security reasons"?


PH> It's the start of the day, and I am now awake. :-) When I wrote


>> PH> That debug looks odd. It should show the entire SMTP dialogue,


PH> I wasn't really thinking it through. What I should have said was that
PH> the debug should show the entire SMTP dialogue *at the top level*. It
PH> doesn't show exchanges that happen inside the authenticator code. I
PH> think that is probably a mistake, the result of an oversight when the
PH> authenticators were first implemented. That's quite a long time ago now,
PH> and I'm surprised nobody noticed it before. I will treat it as a bug,
PH> and fix it.


PH> I don't think there is a security issue, because only an Exim admin user
PH> can start an Exim daemon, and in any case, only an Exim admin user can
PH> set a sufficiently high debug level.


PH> -- 
PH> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
PH> Get the Exim 4 book:    http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book