Re: [msmtp-users] Bug: external auth via certificate only doesn't work

[Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@...320...>]

Hi,

Quoting Marcelo Laia (2012-12-22 12:49:44):
> [..]

> I think I have the same problem a lot of days.
Actuallay I don't think it's the same problem, only the same symptoms.

> Please, see this thread:
As Martin Lambers [0] mentioned in this thread your problem is a
misconfigured mail server. It silently expects msmtp to do
challenge-response authentication (password) but at the same time
doesn't even tell msmtp that it supports this passwords.

My problem however is that I am not using challenge-response but
certificates. So my server already authenticates msmtp during the
STARTTLS handshake. It doesn't need any authentication afterwards.
(And in fact doesn't even support it afterwards, hence my bugreport)

In your case the STARTTLS handshake doesn't tell your server anything
about the client so it still needs a password. But as the server doesn't
tell msmtp this you get the error message.

Regards,
Thomas

[0]: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29692689

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