On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:40:40 -0800, Phil Pennock
<exim-users@???> wrote:
>To debug manually, then simplifying PLAIN a lot to ignore SASLprep
>UTF-8 normalisation and authorisation ids, the PLAIN auth is just a
>base64 encoding of an ASCII NUL, your usercode, another ASCII NUL and
>then the password.
>
>If your usercode is fred and your password is sekret, then do:
>
>$ perl -MMIME::Base64 -le '$u="fred"; $p="sekret";
> print encode_base64("\0$u\0$p")'
>
>This yields:
> AGZyZWQAc2VrcmV0
>
>So to authenticate, you'd type:
> AUTH PLAIN AGZyZWQAc2VrcmV0
>or optionally omit the base64 on the first attempt, get a 334
>continuation prompt, then supply the authentication data.
swaks is a good tool to spare oneself from this pain.
Greetings
Marc
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