Mailing List Archive: SMTP AUTH problem with 3.34+

Hiya.

I have a problem with SMTP AUTH and Netscape, can you
probably advise what to do to make it work again?

-->
fixed_plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_condition = "${if and {{!eq{$2}{}}{!eq{$3}{}} \
{crypteq{$3}{${extract{2}{:} \
{${lookup{$2}lsearch{/etc/exim/smtp-auth/crypt-auth}{$value}{*:*}}}}}}}{1}{0}}"
server_set_id = $2
<--

That thingy does not work any more and on the FAQ pages it's
still the old recipe, it worked with 3.1x and now it doesn't.

I have 3.35 now, but the 3.36 changelog does not give any
hint in that direction either.

Please, any idea welcome, especially a fix. :) And also
thanks for that well done piece of software, saved my butt
quite some times already.

Alexander

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Kill -9 them all. Let init sort'em out.
Alexander Koch - <>< - WWJD - aka Efraim - PGP 0xE7694969 - KOCH1-RIPE

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Alexander Koch wrote:

> -->
> fixed_plain:
> driver = plaintext
> public_name = PLAIN
> server_condition = "${if and {{!eq{$2}{}}{!eq{$3}{}} \
> {crypteq{$3}{${extract{2}{:} \
> {${lookup{$2}lsearch{/etc/exim/smtp-auth/crypt-auth}{$value}{*:*}}}}}}}{1}{0}}"
> server_set_id = $2
> <--
>
> That thingy does not work any more and on the FAQ pages it's
> still the old recipe, it worked with 3.1x and now it doesn't.
>
> I have 3.35 now, but the 3.36 changelog does not give any
> hint in that direction either.

There were some fixes to expansions that tightened up the handling of
incorrect expansion strings. However, I can't see anything wrong with
your expansion.

I'm afraid you'll have to run some debugging tests to find out exactly
what's going on. Unfortunately, server_debug_print is an Exim 4 option.
Have you tried running tests using "exim -be"?

> And also
> thanks for that well done piece of software, saved my butt
> quite some times already.

Thank you.

Oh, one last thing. Are you trying to authenticate with the same client
as before? (That is, are you sure the client hasn't changed?)

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