Hello,
I believe I have figured out why Netscape requires a username
to relay messages even when smtprelay.tab is set to allow
the IP to relay without authentication.
For anyone who didn't follow the thread, what was happening
was that I could not relay messages using Netscape and xmail.
Outlook and Eudora worked fine, but Netscape REQUIRED a username
and password. Using some help from tcpdump I believe I have
figured out why I was having problems.
When Netscape connects to a mail server it sends
a "ehlo domain.tld" statement, when xmail responds
it sends:
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250 AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 RSA-AUTH
When Netscape sees the word PLAIN, it would force the user
to enter a username and password.
I edited SMTPSvr.cpp and removed the word PLAIN from the
'250 AUTH LOGIN ....' line. (line 2125) in xmail 0.73
I recompiled Xmail and now Netscape can send mail just fine!
Woohoo! Isn't open source great? :)
Davide, will removing the word PLAIN from that line cause
any problems that you can think of? Thanks for your help...
Riaz...
