On 3/22/07 3:29 PM, "John Peacock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For testing, I always use swaks: > > http://jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks > > since you can see exactly what is going on in both directions. Ok, this is curious: <- 250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN -> AUTH LOGIN <- 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 -> cGVpc2No <- 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 -> NDJTRmM4ZDQ= <** 535 Authentication failed for - auth_imap - insufficient credentials -> AUTH PLAIN THISISCHANGED== <** 500 Unrecognized command *** No authentication type succeeded -> QUIT Yet, if I use telnet and the exact same base64 hash, cleverly obscured here, as generated by swaks, I get goodness: trixie# telnet the.qpsmtpd.server smtp ... Escape character is '^]'. 220 saar ESMTP qpsmtpd 0.32 ready; send us your mail, but not your spam. ehlo blah 250-saar Hi [my.ip.addr] [my.ip.addr] 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN AUTH LOGIN THISISCHANGED== 235 Authentication successful for peisch - auth_imap/login QUIT 221 saar closing connection. Have a wonderful day. Connection closed by foreign host. trixie# My auth-noobie Q then makes me wonder what the 334 messages are all about. Thanks, peter
