[Pkg-exim4-users] Problem with exim4 and Outlook 2003 when sending?emails

[Andreas Metzler]

Liviu Tudor <liviu.tudor at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>        So, in brief, I'm using exim4 on a Debian Linux system (more
> specifically the exim4-daemon-heavy package) and I am trying to get this
> thing to work with MS Outlook 2003
[...]
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/000_localmacros:

> daemon_smtp_ports = 25 : 465
> tls_on_connect_ports = 465
> AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = 0

This explicitely allows usage of cleartext passwords on unencrypted
connections. Do you really need that?

> MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true

> In terms of authenticators I've only got 2 set up:
> plain_server:
>   driver = plaintext
>   public_name = PLAIN
>   server_condition = "${if
> crypteq{$auth3}{${extract{1}{:}{${lookup{$auth2}lsearch{CONFDIR/passwd}
> {$value}{*:*}}}}}{1}{0}}"
>   server_set_id = $auth2
>   server_prompts = :
>   .ifndef AUTH_SERVER_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
>   server_advertise_condition = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{}{*}}
>   .endif


> cram_md5_server:
>   driver = cram_md5
>   public_name = CRAM-MD5
>   server_secret =
> ${extract{2}{:}{${lookup{$auth1}lsearch{CONFDIR/passwd}{$value}fail}}}
>   server_set_id = $auth1

I am not sure but I think Outlook does not support AUGH PLAIN but only
the (not standardized) AUTH LOGIN.

cu andreas