On 25/03/07, Michael Rouba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Wessel schrieb: > > On Mar 24, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Michael Rouba wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > >> i have running an exim4 on a debian 3.1 system. I sends, receives and > >> relays everything, i want. Just the relaying is known as a big > >> problem. > >> To prevent unwanted spam over the machine, i would like to use > >> authentication at smtp connections through the clients. Well, how > >> can i > >> prevent exim4 to accept mail from unauthenticated clients? > >> > > > > By default, exim only allows relaying by the local host, > > authenticated clients and clients that are listed in relay_from_hosts > > (which gets filled from the dc_relay_nets setting in debian's config > > management.) So to allow only authenticated clients, simply don't add > > any hosts. > > > I have set an Asterix in dc_relay_nets, couse i don't want the clients > be authenticated, that was miss understandable how i wrote it, i want > the users be authenticated. > > In short: Now the server accepts even mail from clients, when the users > are not sending an authentication (login and password). What i want, is > the relay permissions by user-authentication, not by host/net > ip-authentication.
Since you're discussing details of the Debian-specific Exim config, you're more likely to get help from the list referenced in your Debian docs, and here http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/ Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## 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/
