On 2016-04-23 Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:31:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Marc Haber, on Fri 22 Apr 2016 12:53:59 +0200, wrote: [...] > > > Ouch. The smarthost sohuldn't advertise AUTH capabilities before > > > STARTTLS if it doesn't want to authenticate in clear text. > > > > Well, no, it doesn't: > > > > brl$ telnet smtp.ens-lyon.org 587 [no AUTH listed] > > 250 DSN > > auth > > 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first
> Ah. Exim shouldnt try authenticating then. But the Postfix there gives > the same answer to a MAIL FROM, which is probably the case here. [...] Since this took me some time to parse, a clarification for the archives: Exim does not try AUTH if it was not advertised. (See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822174#20 - exim simply tried sending unauthenticated.) cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
