Personally, I use pass=${quote_ldap:$2} , but try running exim in debug mode
with expansion so you can double check the LDAP query that is being
performed and what comes back.
-Andy-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Hastings [mailto:pat.hastings@accesst.com]
> Sent: 26 May 2006 11:47
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: [exim] smtp authentication with outlook express
>
> HI,
>
> I'm having a world of grief trying to get smtp authentication
> working with outlook express. It works with outlook and
> thunderbird (though I believe they use the plain
> authenticator not the login authenticator) and I can get a
> successful authentication using exim -d -bs
>
> Any ideas where I am going wrong? It is as if OE does not see
> that there is an authentication scheme available as the error
> message that I get back is a "550 - unable to relay message"
>
> Here is the authenticator I am using:
>
> login_server:
> driver = plaintext
> public_name = LOGIN
> server_prompts = Username:: : Password::
> server_condition = ${if ldapauth \
>
> {user="mail=${quote_ldap:$1},o=${extract{2}{@}{$1}},LDAPBASE" \
> pass="$2" \
> ldap://LDAPSERVER/}{yes}{no}}
> server_set_id = $1
>
>
> Where LDAPSERVER is the ip address of the of the ldap server
> and LDAPBASE is "o=email,dc=accesst,dc=com"
>
>
> All the googleing I have done points to it usually being a
> problem with the server_prompt but as far as I can see I have
> got it correct (tried with and without double quotes).
>
> Regards,
>
> Pat
>
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