Mail module: auth cram-md5 does not work

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:57:37AM +0100, Miguel Beccari wrote:

>
> Il giorno 06/feb/09, alle ore 13:01, Maxim Dounin ha scritto:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:02:44AM +0100, Miguel Beccari wrote:
>>
>>>> Unrelated note: nginx as of now doesn't support smtp pipelining.   
>>>> You are
>>>> searching from troubles by advertising it.
>>>
>>> Thanks you very much for this notes. I am still testing nginx...  
>>> Where can
>>> I find complete documentation about features?
>>
>> The most complete one available on official site, but it's written
>> mostly in C language.  :)
>>
>> Other possibilities include:
>>
>> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailCoreModule (rather minimal)
>> http://citrin.ru/nginx:ngx_mail_core_module (in russian)
>>
>
> Thank you very much for your precious informations: cram-md5 mechanism  
> is clear.
>
> But now I have another problem. Logs say:
>
> 2009/02/07 10:51:19 [error] 23924#0: *73 upstream sent invalid response: 
> "551 sorry, your domain is not correct" while reading response from 
> upstream, client: 192.168.172.11 server: 0.0.0.0:25, login: "my_test", 
> upstream: 192.168.172.29:25

This error was returned by your backend smtp server.  Check it's 
configuration and logs to find out what's caused this error.

> Should I write additional HTTP HEADER informations when using smtp with 
> CRAM-MD5 auth?

For smtp - no, you shouldn't, since nginx doesn't try to 
authenticate against smtp backends.  For pop3/imap you have to 
return plaintext users password back to nginx from your auth 
script.

Maxim Dounin