Author: Christopher Curtis Date: To: Philip Hazel CC: Exim Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Exim] Forcing tls authentication
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Well, as I said earlier, you can't actually say that to a client. All
> you can do (all the protocol specifies) is to refuse to accept messages
> from it. So I think your problem is with your client. If Exim advertises
> AUTH LOGIN that's the best it can do. Exim 4 isn't going to help here,
> because there's no other mechanism in SMTP.
Well, I disagree, I think: Exim 4 should be able to report an error like
'530: not authorised', like it does for the non-TLS sessions. The
mechanism is there - I've seen it - just not for TLS alone.
