[imp] smtp auth setup

Gerald Griessner ggriessn at salzburgresearch.at
Thu Dec 18 04:04:17 PST 2003


It seems to be a Problem of Net_SMTP.
when AUTH is PLAIN it seems to treat it the same way as AUTH LOGIN.

I modified the mailserver to send a AUTH LOGIN request to the IMP host.



Gerald Griessner wrote:
> I'm trying to get smtp auth with imp working.
> 
> I configured horde.php as noted:
> 
> $conf['mailer']['type'] = 'smtp';
> $conf['mailer']['params']['host'] = 'mailserver';
> $conf['mailer']['params']['auth'] = true;
> 
> When IMP sends a message to the mailserver tcpdump says following
> 
> response from mailserver:
> 250-mailserver Hello webserver
> 250-SIZE 7000000
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-AUTH PLAIN
> 250 HELP
> 
> imp sends:
> AUTH PLAIN
> well, the information about username and password is missing, thats what
> exim complains about.
> I read through the mailing list archive, but I couldn't get a hint.
> 
> My setup:
> Horde 2.2.4 stable, IMP   3.2.2 stable
> mailserver:  exim
> 
> can anybody give me a hint?
> 
> is there a chance to get IMP working with STARTTLS?
> 
> thx
>   Gerald
> 
> 
> 



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