On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:28:47 +0100, Niels Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think I understand the functionality of how exim works with >authentication. But my problem is that I dont know where or which file >I have to edit to make this work :/
http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/README/README.Debian.html#smtp-auth |2.3. SMTP-AUTH | | Exim can do SMTP AUTH both as a client and as a server. | | AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN are disabled for connections which are not | protected by SSL/TLS per default. These authentication methods use | cleartext passwords, and allowing the transmission of cleartext | passwords on unencrypted connections is a security risk. Therefore, | the default configuration configures exim not to use and/or allow AUTH | PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN over unencrypted connections. | | It is thus recommended to set up exim to use TLS to encrypt the | connections. Please refer to Section 2.2, "Using TLS" for | documentation about this. Note that most Microsoft clients need | special handling for TLS. | |2.3.1. Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client | | If you want to set up exim as SMTP AUTH client for delivery to your | internet access provider's smarthost put the name of the server, your | login and password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. See the man page for | exim4-config_files(5) for more information about the required format. | | If you need to enable AUTH PLAIN or AUTH LOGIN for unencrypted | connections because your service provider does support neither TLS | encryption nor the CRAM MD5 authentication method, you can do so by | setting the AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS macro. Please refer to | Section 2.1.3, "Using Exim Macros to control the configuration" | for an explanation of how best to do this. | | /etc/exim4/passwd.client needs to be readable for the exim user (user | Debian-exim, group Debian-exim). I suggest you keep the default | permissions root:Debian-exim 0640. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
