[Pkg-exim4-users] authenticator failure

[Nick Guerette]

Because DNS load balancing is used on the name smtp.comcast.net, you
will not actually connect to an individual server that has that name, so
you need to use a wildcard in passwd.client, and at least in our case
the username is a full email address, though I don't know if that's

Hi,
well I finally got my mail to be accepted, but it’s going unauthenticated since my authenticator fails. not sure why, can anyone look at my authenticator code and tell me?
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begin authenticators
driver = plaintext
public_name = LOGIN
.ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
# Return empty string if not non-TLS AND looking up $host in passwd-file
# yields a non-empty string; fail otherwise.
client_send = "<; ${if and{\
{!eq{$tls_out_cipher}{}}\
{!eq{PASSWDLINE}{}}\
}\
{}fail}\
; ${extract{1}{::}{PASSWDLINE}}\
; ${sg{PASSWDLINE}{\\N([^:]+:)(.*)\\N}{\\$2}}"
.else
# Return empty string if looking up $host in passwd-file yields a
# non-empty string; fail otherwise.
client_send = "<; ${if !eq{PASSWDLINE}{}\
{}fail}\
; ${extract{1}{::}{PASSWDLINE}}\
; ${sg{PASSWDLINE}{\\N([^:]+:)(.*)\\N}{\\$2}}"
.endif
—————————————————
and my passwd.client is of the form smtp.comcast.net:username:password, and both of those creds check out with swak on smtp.comcast.net
any advice MUCH appreciated!
DB
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[dan biles]

well I totally believe you but…..how do you know that?

best, DB