On 2013-05-30, Sebastian Arcus <[email protected]> wrote: > I use the following client authenticator to connect my Exim in smart > relay to my provider's SMTP server and send email: > > fixed_plain_client: > driver = plaintext > public_name = PLAIN > client_send = ^$sender_address^${lookup{$sender_address}\ > lsearch{/etc/exim/exim-client.passwd}{$value}{fail}} > > It is all working fine, but there are two things I would need some > clarification about: > > 1. Does Exim authenticate as a client and send one message at a time by > default (and authenticate again for next message to be sent) - or does > it try to send several messages on the same authentication session?
By default the smtp transport will send as many emails as possible, you can set connection_max_messages to 1 to limit this to a single email per connection, or you can create several tranports one for each user. > 2. If it tries to send several messages in one go after authenticating - > what does $sender_address refer to? Is it the sender address of the > first message which it tries to send? It's empty unless they all have the same sender. (same deal with all other variables in the smtp transport) -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
