[exim] feature request: set authenticated

2006-03-30 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi I would ask you about you opinion about a new feature request: I would like to do the following: warn host = a.b.c.d set authenticed = test So that remote hosts can be authenticated directly. I know, I can do all this using $ack_cX, but I have a lot of rules, all of them using

Re: [exim] feature request: set authenticated

2006-03-30 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Steffen Heil wrote: I would like to do the following: warn host = a.b.c.d set authenticed = test So that remote hosts can be authenticated directly. What I use in this situation is the SASL EXTERNAL mechanism. This is designed for lifting some lower-level

RE: [exim] feature request: set authenticated

2006-03-30 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi What I use in this situation is the SASL EXTERNAL mechanism. This is designed for lifting some lower-level authentication (such as IPSEC or TLS) to the SASL level, but there's no reason that you can't consider TCP connections from a known client to be good enough authentication in

Re: [exim] feature request: set authenticated

2006-03-30 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Quoting Steffen Heil: I know, I can do all this using $ack_cX, but I have a lot of rules, all of is it really so hard? set a macro, e.g. ACL_AUTHENTICATED = acl_c99 In some acl (e.g. mail from, that's usually the first one used after authentication): warn authenticated = * set