Updated:
06 Feb, 2007
VersaMail ESMTP (SMTP) AUTH is broken?
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Bought a brand new spanking Tungsten T5, did you?? (And apprently the new Treo's as well!) Can't get email to send out, eh? Is it really broken? Well - Yes and no. (11/24/2005 - Note for recent readers: I bought my Palm T5 in late Dec. 2004 and wrote this page in early Jan. 2005 - see the update below on my fix being dated Jan.21, 2005. If you've contacted Palm and told them about this to get a "this is the first we've heard of it"... You can say "bullcrap" - I wrote them about it back in Jan 2005 and never got squat out of them) As of VersaMail v2.7.1 on my brand new Palm Tungsten-T5, outbound mail with ESMTP is broken because VersaMail accepts an offer to send a PLAIN type AUTH, but then sends an empty line. (username and password are supposed to go there!) Oops!
UPDATE: 01/21/2005: I've included below a snippet of WORKING authentication with the LOGIN mech below. Yes. I jumbled the password lines so they should NOT be decryptable. If they are.. WoW! The laws of random text entry! Who'da thunk? So, in the end, case solved thanks to Matt (the user who emailed me). If VersaMail isn't sending email for you, make sure your server uses AUTH mechs LOGIN, and not PLAIN. I used PLAIN for netscape support back in the day, but even Netscape doesn't use PLAIN anymore. They use CRAM-MD5. So I just took PLAIN out. I hope this clears up things for folks who are struggling as to why this isn't working for them... UPDATE: 02/06/2007:ALL HAIL THE POWER OF THE INTERNET! (wink) Lance Cotton writes in: I couldn't get rid of PLAIN auth for other reasons, but I did determine that I could change the order of the presented methods from (in my case): 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN to 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and Versamail would take the first one it knew how to do, which is LOGIN. Thanks for the tip Lance!! Our tummies are especially grateful! |
Here's a snippet of a Broken VersaMail Conversation:
sendmail[21804]: STARTTLS=server, get_verify: 0 get_peer: 0x0 sendmail[21804]: STARTTLS=server, relay=c-67-165-154-195.client.comcast.net [67.165.154.195], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=NO, cipher=RC4-SHA, bits=128/128 sendmail[21804]: STARTTLS=server, cert-subject=, cert-issuer= sendmail[21804]: AUTH: available mech=PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 ANONYMOUS, allowed mech=DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTlZ021804: <-- EHLO COM sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: milter=mimedefang, action=helo, continue sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-bkamen-0.benjammin.net Hello c-67-165-154-195.client.comcast.net [67.165.154.195], pleased to meet you sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-PIPELINING sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-8BITMIME sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-SIZE sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-ETRN sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250-DELIVERBY sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 250 HELP sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: <-- AUTH PLAIN sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 334 sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: --- 535 5.7.0 authentication failed sendmail[21804]: iBU0oTla021804: AUTH failure (PLAIN): bad protocol / cancel (-5)
Here's a snippet of a working VersaMail Conversation:
sendmail[14074]: j0L4XAVZ014074: --- 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN sendmail[14074]: j0L4XAVZ014074: --- 250-DELIVERBY sendmail[14074]: j0L4XAVZ014074: --- 250 HELP sendmail[14074]: j0L4XAVZ014074: <-- AUTH LOGIN sendmail[14074]: j0L4XAVZ014074: --- 334 Dudnmsh$72hs sendmail[14074]: j0L4XAVZ014074: --- 334 Hek38S9Ks3sU sendmail[14074]: j0L4XAVZ014074: --- 235 2.0.0 OK Authenticated
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