On 2022-05-05, Martin McCormick via Exim-users <[email protected]> wrote: > --===============0238493248== > Content-Type: text/plain > > Subject: smarthost Outsmarting me so Far
> $ telnet smtp.suddenlink.net 25 you probably need encryption to use authentication. openssl s_client -connect smtp.suddenlink.net:25 -starttls=smtp > helo martim.n Use ESMTP "ehlo" instead of "helo": EHLO martim.n > 250 omta03.suddenlink.net > help login The help banner doesn't cover auth, the command you want is AUTH LOGIN Auth is all in base-64 so you'll need to encode your responses (and decode the challenges if you can't guess what they are). > A good perl or python script should plug in to exim's > logic to make it possible to script and monitor authentication > and take care of that while exim can do the smtp activities as it > always has. > > Any and all constructive ideas are much appreciated. > A modular authentication helper would be a tremendous > force multiplier since security issues have made things much more > complex then they were and a form of scripting similar to expect > should reduce the amount of head-banging necessary to solve minor > changes in authentication that totally stop the show right now. perl and python already have SMTP libraries just use them, or use swaks if you're programming in shell. -- Jasen. -- ## List details at https://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/
