DA Exim authenticaton problem

[mtes]

Hi everyone,

I have da_exim-4.43-1 on Fedora Core 2 and really big problem with sending emails. In mainlog it occures as

"plain authenticator failed for (here client id) 535 Incorrect authentication data"


exim.pl works ok, I checked it many time using log_str sub included in it.

in exim.conf I have

begin authenticators

plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_condition = "${perl{smtpauth}}"
server_set_id = $2

login:
driver = plaintext
public_name = LOGIN
server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::"
server_condition = "${perl{smtpauth}}"
server_set_id = $1



Thanks

Mtes

 

[saman]

DA uses pop-before-smtp, so you need to have logged on to POP3 at least during the pas 15 minutes in order to send messages. Therefore, SMTP doesn't need a passsword.

Although this is abit insecure, since your password is sent in PLAIN test when logging in to POP3.

TO start pop-before-smtp:

/sbin/service da-popb4smtp start

You might be able to sue SMTP authentication if you start the saslauthd daemon (I haven't checked this).

/sbin/service saslauthd start