Quoth Matthew Daubenspeck on Sat, Jan 05, 2002: >
> >Do they really authenticate? Try to run 'exim -bh' with their IP
> >address and authenticate manually. Can you relay then?
>
> I'm kind of a newbie here, so please bear with me.
I do, but still, run 'exim -bh <ip address>'.
> I manually connected
> with the above and tried to relay without authentication. It didn't work.
> Whew! :)
Although the host was in hosts_accept_relay?
> I'm not sure exactly what steps to add for authentication. I tried AUTH
> LOGIN and I got some garbage back, which I assumed was 'Username' encrypted
> (from exim.conf). Again I would assume that my client would send the actual
> username in return, encrypted as well. How do I encrypt that name to test
> it? Just sending it manually did not do anything.
Read the chapter about authentication in the Exim manual, it has
commands for encoding and decoding Base64 strings.
> >Is authentication logged for them?
>
> Would that be included in mainlog? I stepped through and it doesn't say
> anything specifically about authentication, so I'm not sure.
Dunno.
> Thanks a million for your help.
You're welcome hundreds of thousands ;)
Vadik.
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