On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Eric Rutherford wrote:
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> I recently got Exim, i set it up and it seems to be sending mail fine from local host, and receiving mail fine from other hosts.. but what i need to do is making it so people can log into my smtp server from a client like outlook or a simliar mailer, and send mail thru my server.. i want to only allow users who login with a user/pass from the /etc/passwd file
If these persons are on KNOWN IP address/networks, (eg you provide them
with connectivity and you can identify which of your customers is using
a particular address at any given time, even after the fact), then add
the IP network blocks that you use to provide them connectivity to
sender_host_accept_relay (the NUMERIC addresses - avoid names)
If these persons are on arbitrary addresses/network (eg, they get their
connectivity from a variety of providers), then you need to setup SMTP
authentication. This is documented in exim's spec file, and in the
FAQs..
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> surely this is a commonly done thing, but in all my searching i couldnt find out how to do it, most of the information i found relating to smtp auth methods just didnt make any sense to me..
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> i dont know if any of the methods i saw actually have anything to do with the /etc/passwd file
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> if you know how to set this up please respond with detailed information on how to do it, ive gotten so many one or two word answers to this problem that are just useless... (smtp auth, auth script.. etc..) starting to get really frustrating..
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> anyway surely someone here can help me get this final thing fixed so i can have a fully functional mail server
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