Bug#295546: exim4: auth_hack_outlook4 option

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:59:11PM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> The patch was rejected by the author of the upstream.

Discussion on exim-users has shown that no exim patch is needed to
achieve the intended effect.

exim4 4.50-1 will include the following commented out authenticator:

# This one is a bad hack to support the broken version 4.xx of
# Microsoft Outlook Express which violates the RFCs by demanding
# "250-AUTH=" instead of "250-AUTH ".
# It has to be the last authenticator to work and has not been tested
# well. Use at your own risk.
# See the thread entry point from
# http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050214/msg00213.html
# for the related discussion on the exim-users mailing list.
# Thanks to Fred Viles for this great work.

# support_broken_outlook_express_4_server:
#   driver = plaintext
#   public_name = "\r\n250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN"
#   server_prompts = User Name : Password
#   server_condition = no

Please try it and say whether this bug report can be closed once the
example is in the Debian package.

Greetings
Marc

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