PS Folks: In the excertp of SMTP dialogue below:
On 25-Apr-05 Ted Harding wrote:
[...] I.e. the following is the start of a typical SMTP dialogue when initiating sending of a mail:
220 smtp807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ESMTP
EHLO nessie.mc.ac.uk
250-smtp807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XYMCOOKIE 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME
MAIL From:efh@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
250 ok
RCPT To:someone@somewhere.on.the.net
250 ok ETC
The response in the fourth line from smtp807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com says
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XYMCOOKIE
which is presumably a solicitation to embark on the authentication.
In http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html which was suggested by a few of you, I read:
# Add the following lines to your sendmail.mc file, filling in your ISP's mail server:
define(`SMART_HOST',`your.isp.net')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl
wherein I can see "LOGIN" and "PLAIN", but *not* "XYMCOOKIE". Can anyone clarify? Is the "250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XYMCOOKIE" a list of *alternatives* (choose any one) or is it a list of *essentials* (must use all)? If so, can sendmail be induced to accept "XYMCOOKIE"s? Or is it just a browser thing?
Thanks! (This saga might just run and run ... )
Ted.
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