[Pkg-exim4-users] authenticator failure

[Nick Guerette]

Because DNS load balancing is used on the name smtp.comcast.net, you 
will not actually connect to an individual server that has that name, so 
you need to use a wildcard in passwd.client, and at least in our case 
the username is a full email address, though I don't know if that's 
universal:

*.comcast.net:username at comcast.net:password



On 10/7/2015 2:41 PM, dan biles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> well I finally got my mail to be accepted, but it’s going unauthenticated since my authenticator fails.  not sure why, can anyone look at my authenticator code and tell me?
>
> —————————————
> begin authenticators
>
> comcast_login:
>    driver = plaintext
>    public_name = LOGIN
> .ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
>    # Return empty string if not non-TLS AND looking up $host in passwd-file
>    # yields a non-empty string; fail otherwise.
>    client_send = "<; ${if and{\
>                            {!eq{$tls_out_cipher}{}}\
>                            {!eq{PASSWDLINE}{}}\
>                           }\
>                        {}fail}\
>                   ; ${extract{1}{::}{PASSWDLINE}}\
> 		 ; ${sg{PASSWDLINE}{\\N([^:]+:)(.*)\\N}{\\$2}}"
> .else
>    # Return empty string if looking up $host in passwd-file yields a
>    # non-empty string; fail otherwise.
>    client_send = "<; ${if !eq{PASSWDLINE}{}\
>                        {}fail}\
>                   ; ${extract{1}{::}{PASSWDLINE}}\
> 		 ; ${sg{PASSWDLINE}{\\N([^:]+:)(.*)\\N}{\\$2}}"
> .endif
> —————————————————
>
> and my passwd.client is of the form smtp.comcast.net:username:password, and both of those creds check out with swak on smtp.comcast.net
>
> any advice MUCH appreciated!
>
> DB
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Nick Guerette
Embedded Systems Engineer
Mosaic Industries, Inc.
510-790-8222
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