Holger - In this case the error tells you everything you need to know. Holger Seidenberg wrote:
This is a base 64 encoded string that says "Username:"Hi, i have some problems with smtp_auth(), im using qmail-smtpd-auth-0.31 patch and get this error message
telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... 220 cronus.it-gurus.org ESMTP ehlo 250-cronus.it-gurus.org 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME Auth login 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
You replied with plain text, which is wrong. You need to send the base64 encoded [EMAIL PROTECTED], then it'll send back a base64 encoded string that says "Password:", to which you reply with the base64 encoded password. Simply reading the smtp auth spec would tell you how each auth method is expected to work.[EMAIL PROTECTED] 501 malformed auth input (#5.5.4)
Hope that helps, Nick Harring Webley Systems