> The exim.org site says that it supports CRAM-MD5 and PLAINTEXT > authentication for SMTP *if* it's called for in the Makefile. > > So, the question becomes: is it compiled in on the distributed Exim?
not really an answer but if you install it you should be able to tell by telnet'ing to port 25 of the box and checking to see if it lists AUTH as one of it's options at the inital smtp banner. eg. heyzeus(larry)$ telnet mail.gci.net 25 Trying 208.138.130.19... Connected to augustine.gci.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 augustine.gci.net ESMTP service (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05 (built Sep 1 1999)) ready on Mon Feb 28 15:24:43 2000 ehlo blah 250-augustine.gci.net 250-PIPELINING 250-HELP 250-ETRN 250-DSN 250-SIZE 104857600 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250 AUTH=LOGIN adam.