On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:32:54PM +0100, Jens Lang wrote:
> I am actually a EXIM user; Iīd like to route my mail via a smart host - he
> uses qmail. This is where this mailing list comes into sight. :)
>
> My uplink wants me to use SMTP authentification, which my mailer supports.
> Actually, it will still not try to authentificate. I suppose that the
> following is not a configuration problem, but a qmail bug:
>
> [SMTP-Session]
> EXIM>: EHLO gregory.lang.euro
> qmail<: 250-charente.de
> 250-AUTH=LOGIN
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
>
> Actually, my mailer does not like the "AUTH=LOGIN" tag. I (and Phil Hazel
> from Univ. of Cambridge, author) think that it should be "AUTH LOGIN"
> instead. The "="-character is IMHO not allowed here (see RFC 2554 and RFC
> 1869).This might be some kind of philosophical question, I suppose. But it
> actually causes problems.
>
> What do you think? Is this a bug or some kind of feature? ;)
qmail doesn't implement SMTP AUTH at all. You must be running a patched version
of qmail, so you should probably talk to whoever made the patch about it.
Chris
