June 14, 2021 9:19 AM, "François RONVAUX" <francois.ronv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a mail server "mx1" with this listening section :
> -------------------------------------------
> listen on egress inet4 \
> tls-require \
> auth
> -------------------------------------------
>
> I have also a server "test" and I would want to authenticate the user when
> sending an e-mail to the
> server "mx1" but I get an error :
> -------------------------------------------
> test smtpd[9309]: f3880cf18b73253d mta error reason=AUTH rejected: 535
> Authentication failed
> -------------------------------------------
>
> "test" seems to connect properly on "mx1" but the error does occur on the
> user authentication.
>
> Because I can perfectly connect to "mx1" with a MUA like Thunderbird, it
> makes me think the error
> should be located on the opensmtpd "test" secrets file :
> -------------------------------------------
> foo f...@mx1.example.org:password
> -------------------------------------------
>
> The password is 40 digits long and looks like this :
> C>(3")GID~7B7%{~LIq_G*JdP6fTW*"[`G)<k?(G
>
> Can a special character be a problem in the password field ?
> If yes, how to deal with it ?
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
The problem is not that there's a special character but that the password
should be crypt(3)-ed,
look at smtpctl encrypt
