Re: Unable to run qmail-remote

Hello Charles,

Saturday, December 23, 2017, 4:11:07 AM, you wrote:

CC> Finding out which patch or combination of patches causes the bug will not be
CC> simple.

I think I know and it's probably not handliny the garbage EHLO response...

From https://qmail.jms1.net/patches/combined-details.shtml

Tom Clegg's qmail-remote-auth.patch allows qmail-remote to use AUTH when
connecting to certain remote mail servers. The userids and passwords are
set in the "smtproutes" file, after the IP[:PORT] value, separated by
spaces. For example...

domain1.xyz:1.2.3.4
domain2.xyz:2.3.4.5 user pass
domain3.xyz:3.4.5.6:26 user pass

In the process of tracking down what I thought was a bug, I ended up
adding support for the AUTH PLAIN method. With this patch, qmail-remote
checks the list of AUTH methods advertised in the EHLO response, and can
work with either AUTH PLAIN or AUTH LOGIN (with AUTH PLAIN being used if
both are available.) This was made possible by the regex function from
above, because using regular expressions makes it so much easier to scan
the server's output for authentication methods.

I also found something else which may be a bug or may have been by design,
but it doesn't seem right to me so I changed it. When it sends the "MAIL
FROM:<...> AUTH=<...>" line (after successfully AUTH'ing to the remote
server) it was repeating the sender address in the AUTH= argument, rather
than putting the actual AUTH information in this argument. It now puts the
userid from the AUTH information into the AUTH= argument. If this is
somehow wrong, please explain to me why and I'll change it back.

-- 
Best regards,
 Niamh                            mailto:[email protected]

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