On 2010-05-14 at 03:16 -0700, John Doe wrote: > server_prompts = <| Username: | Password:
> While it works fine with Thunderbird, Apple Mail just stall for 1mn and give > up... I recently had cause to set up Apple Mail on an iPad, to let my wife use it to access our IMAP and SMTP servers and I was rather unimpressed by the *buggy* error messages and poor diagnostics. What I do recall is that it was sensitive to "require SSL" and whether that meant STARTTLS or SSL-on-connect, which could be confusing. I think there was an accepting-that-things-failed, then turning them back on, getting told still problems, but working-in-practice-anyway step. I see also that it sends its own IP as an address literal in the HELO step, which of course is "interesting" when going through NAT. One minute timeout -- could you be doing DNS checks on HELO/EHLO? Here's a successful log-line, slightly censored [note: I'm not asking for help in diagnosis, it's okay for me to redact]: 2010-05-04 05:57:13 [21582] 1O9B85-0005c6-6M <= [email protected] H=c-1-2-3-4.hsdX.state.comcast.net ([192.168.1.104]) [192.0.2.42]:44137 I=[94.142.241.89]:587 P=esmtpsa X=TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128 CV=no A=auth_cram:my_wifes_account S=1474 [email protected] for [email protected] If you can fetch the password from MySQL, to have it available for CRAM-MD5 auth, it can be useful to have an authenticator which is safe to use plaintext. But I doubt that's the problem. > And exim logs just says it failed... A little more detail than that might be helpful, to know how it failed. > I also tried (found on some forum): > > server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::" > > But it did not help... any idea? That's not changed anything in the protocol. "server_prompts" takes a list. The list is a list, nothing fancy, once stored inside Exim. To specify a list, you can either use the default list separator, ":", and then double other colons, "::" to slip one past, or you can change the list separator, which is what "<|" did in your original config. So all this advice has done is gone from a neat config which is clear about the fields, to one which has user escaping to get past an artifact and made your configs uglier. -- ## 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/
