On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:33:18PM +0300, Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am using 20040401 and has compiled it with ssl/tls, now I set
> SMTPAUTH to "TLSREQUIRED" and the server doesn't advertise SMTP AUTH,
> this causes Outlook and OE to fail even when using the smtp
> authentication option. Outlook and OE check the server capability
> rather than stick to the options, the only thing that can make it work
> is to set the variable to empty string this way the server advertises
> it and O/OE works.
> I need to have this option working with TLS, so I went through the
> code and found that a check is done which disables the message in case
> of TLSREQUIRED
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> #ifdef TLS_SMTPD
> ~ if (!needssl || ssl)
> #endif
> ~ if (flagauth)
> ~ out("250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN\r\n");
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> Is there a way to over come this ?.
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You may not like the answer but this is a Outlook bug so bug Microsoft.
I will not add a knob for this.
To get the advertisement in all cases which is bad because auth befor
starttls will fail, you can remove the #ifdef TLS_SMTPD - #endif block.
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:wq Claudio
