On 02/10/2023 13:44, Adrian Zaugg via Exim-users wrote:
The official communication talks of "EXTERNAL auth": Is it meant fordriver = external as mentioned under [1] or any external authentication like driver = dovecot and thus written capitalized? Or does EXTERNAL refer to something completely different? Thank you for clarification.
There's two concepts here: a) the driver (a module within Exim), which has the lowercase word as it's label. b) the ESMTP protocol word used to negociate use of the feature. Traditionally in all-caps. For this one there's maximum confusion. The driver only handles the one method. But the "plaintext" driver (for instance) handles both LOGIN and PLAIN methods. -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## [email protected] ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
