NMS 4.15 Patch 7 - AUTH

[pixboy]

I'm experimenting with Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 Patch 7 on RedHat 8. (We use NMS 3.6 on a Sun box now, but I'd love to upgrade to something better. My Linux install is a testing box.) No matter how hard I try and how hard I look, I can't get it to require AUTH. I've gotten the antirelay filter to require it to send to someone non-local, but I can't get the AUTH process to work.

I have to admit the documentation for this product is pretty poor in some areas, particularly this one.

The basic process I want is for the server to work in this order:

1. SMTP connection comes in
2. Connecting machine AUTHenticates
3. If it doesn't AUTHenticate, the recipient must be local
4. If the recipient isn't local and the sender didn't AUTH successfully, reject the message at the protocol level

This is the basic setup our NMS 3.6 server does, but the antirelay is done at the filter level, not at the protocol level.

If I telnet into port 25 of my NMS 4.15 machine, I can see that it seems to understand something about AUTH, but I can't get it to do it right. I've intercepted my packets, and it doesn't even try to make the sender AUTH. It just rejects the message as non-local.

Help!

Thanks!!

 

[pixboy]

To add to the strangeness -- if I do this:

./configutil -o service.smtp.plaintextmincipher -v 0

AUTH works fine. Supposedly it'd take a plain-text password, but anything other than "0" doesn't work. SMTP doesn't advertise the AUTH possibility if I set that at either "40" or "128". I think I tried "56" at one point, but I'm not sure.

This is just too strange ...