On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Frank Elsner wrote:
>
> I've a problem with authentication which I can't understand.
>
> The configuration contains
> -------------
>
> host_auth_accept_relay = "*"
> auth_always_advertise = false
> auth_hosts = "!*.tu-berlin.de:!130.149.0.0/16:*"
>
>
> but the main log contains lines of the form
> --------
>
> rejected MAIL from (mail.zrz.tu-berlin.de) [130.149.4.15]: not authenticated
Run a test with exim -bh 130.149.4.15 to see what checks it is
actually doing. My guess is that it failed to find the host name in
order to check *.tu-berlin.de (because it only gave the name in
parentheses). You should really write that option as
auth_hosts = !130.149.0.0/16:!*.tu-berlin.de:*
so that it does the first test without having to look up the name.
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