On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 04:10:34PM -0500, Matthew Roberts wrote:
> I'm using Exim4 to pass mail from Mutt to the campus mail server.
> 
> The mail server requires authentication for off-campus email addresses, but 
> not for on-campus addresses.  In order to make this work I have added the 
> mail server to the /etc/exim4/passwd.client with login/password information.  
> 
> This worked great until a few days ago, when the off-campus mail from my 
> system stopped going through.  I hadn't changed anything.
> 
> To test it out I tried to send a test message off-campus.  See below for 
> results.
> 
> It appears that the mail server is not asking for authentication.  If that is 
> the case, is there a way for me to force authentication even if the mail 
> server does not request it?

See the docs in the section "Authentication by an Exim client".  In
particular, hosts_require_auth, and you may wish to take advantage of the fact
that that setting is expanded before use.

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Dave Evans
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