Re: [Exim] SMTP Auth Pb

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Guillaume Finance
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP Auth Pb
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Guillaume Finance wrote:

> Exim starts without any error (sendmail -bd -15qm) and I checked the logs files and didn't find anything.
> With my Outlook express I still can send email without having to authentificate.


Exim does not insist on authentication. You have to specify for which
hosts you require authentication.

> Is it the authenticate_hosts the problem? Note that I want to allow anyone send emails through my Exim SMTP as long as they authentificated.


authenticate_hosts is relevent when Exim is a client, not a server.

You want host_auth_accept_relay.

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