On Thursday 06 August 2009 12:55:02 Jay G. Scott wrote:
> Sigh. Truly, I am a noob.
Try troubleshooting with a regular MUA such as Thunderbird.
[snip]
> However, this does not work:
>
> [r...@smail ~]# telnet smail 25
[snip]
> I used saslpasswd2 to set up the user, I reset the unix password
> to match it. I used this to generate the AUTH PLAIN string:
>
> perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\\0test\\0testpass");'
A common mistake when using perl to generate the string is quoting
failure: "@" is a special character to perl which should be quoted,
when intended to be a literal "@" sign.
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