The problem was that Lotus Domino smtp server answers to EHLO AUTH with
250-AUTH=LOGIN
The equal sign (=) is non-standard, should be a blank as per specs, but this
is common practice in some Windows related MUAs, MTAs.
exim author Philip Hazel (with good reasons) refuses to change exim's code to
accept above syntax, because it's non standard, but this makes us, poor users
who have to use whatever smtp server our isp provides us with, to be stuck.
I've patched exim's sources:
change
if (regex_AUTH == NULL) regex_AUTH =
regex_must_compile("\\n250[\\s\\-]AUTH\\s+([\\-\\w\\s]+)(?:\\n|$)",
FALSE,TRUE);
by:
if (regex_AUTH == NULL) regex_AUTH =
regex_must_compile("\\n250[\\s\\-]AUTH(?:\\s+|=)([\\-\\w\\s]+)(?:\\n|$)",
FALSE,TRUE);
in deliver.c effectively changing a sequence of spaces by the same sequence
OR =. Now it works :-)
Once again advantadges and drawbacks of Linux vs. Windows come into play. I
cannot tell my mother to configure exim while in Windows she only has to
check a box. OTOH would I come across a problem like this in Window$ I
couldn't solve it since its proprietary.
When all else fails use the souce Luke!
Cheers
Francesc Oller
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