On 2008-01-14 at 20:23 -0500, Daniel Aquino wrote: > How come when I turn off the advertising, does authentication always pass.
It doesn't. > Even though the AUTH command doesn't work cause its not advertised??? > > Here is my output of smtptest without advertising: smtptest is a program which ships with Cyrus IMAP and which speaks imap, pop3, nttp, lmtp, smtp, mupdate, sieve or csync depending upon how it was invoked. Somehow, I find myself lacking confidence that it is always the most solid indicator of protocol compliance. Indeed, reading the code xmtp_do_auth() returns IMTEST_OK unless there's a mechanism or mechanism list to authenticate with. "If the server doesn't ask for authentication, we're anonymous and have passed authentication". Try Tony Finch's "smtpc" from: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/src/smtpc/ or John Jetmore's "swaks" from: http://jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks > S: 220 mockingbird.bayshorenetworks.com ESMTP Exim 4.68 Mon, 14 Jan > 2008 19:36:18 -0500 > C: EHLO example.com > S: 250-mockingbird.bayshorenetworks.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1] > S: 250-SIZE 52428800 > S: 250-PIPELINING > S: 250-STARTTLS > S: 250 HELP > Authenticated. Clearly, either there was no authentication or the diagnostic tool you chose suddently decided to stop showing what was going on for the duration of the authentication. > Is that just a smtptest oddity ? "Oddity", that word covers so many meanings. Yes, I believe that you are seeing an smtptest oddity. -Phil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
