Re: [exim] getting auth to work under cygwin

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Zbigniew Szalbot
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] getting auth to work under cygwin
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

> > Does your file have crypted passwords? If they're plain text
> > passwords, sustitute 'eq' for 'crypteq' in your server_condition.
>
> Yes, I created the file in notepad out of sheer despair (it is a plain text file). I changed the
> string to eq but again incorrect authentication data.
>
> 2006-08-04 09:12:31 login authenticator failed for ([192.168.11.26]) [192.168.11.1]: 535
> Incorrect authentication data


The problem is that very, very few people here have any experience of
running Exim under Cygwin.

The "generic" advice on how to debug this would be to run Exim with
full debugging turned on (-d+all) so that you can see exactly what it is
doing when it is checking the authentication.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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