RE: [Exim] SMTP AUTH

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: o.cook
CC: brian, trevor, exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] SMTP AUTH
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 o.cook@??? wrote:

> As far as I can tell that involves POP3 before SMTP style authetication. I'd
> rather be able to use SMTP AUTH via the MySQL database; matching
> username/password pairs. Has anyone managed this/know any pointers?


I don't see any problem about using MySQL for storing passwords. It's
just another lookup for Exim. You could store them encrypted if you are
using PLAIN or LOGIN authentication, or in plain if you are using
CRAM-MD5.

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