Hello, I'm successfully using Exim for years now and I've also properly configured Exim to authenticate itself as a client when connecting to a remote SMTP server. But now I want to improve the way how Exim selects the authentication mechanism at transport time.
As far as I understood from the documentation Exim selects the authentication mechanism based on which are advertised by the remote server and in which order the client authenticators have been defined in the configuration file. Additionally the parameters 'hosts_require_auth' and 'hosts_try_auth' are influencing how the result of an authentication attempt is interpreted. Now I wonder if it is possible to force usage of a specific authenticator, e.g. CRAM-MD5, when connecting to a specific remote SMTP server and to stop transmitting a message if authentication fails (this can be done by using hosts_require_auth). Although it's possible to configure nearly everything I haven't found a final solution in the Exim documentation yet. Has anyone else an idea how to setup the desired behaviour? Thanks in advance! Regards, Jürgen -- GPG Key available -- ## 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/
