RE: [Exim] Need help setting up SMTP AUTH

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Author: Dennis Pinckard
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Subject: RE: [Exim] Need help setting up SMTP AUTH
Thanks John.

This is a fresh install of Exim 4.02, there was no version 3 to convert
from. Bynari's
version of Exim is 3.33(?) so I've spent about a week trying to get that
to support smtp
auth before deciding to just have an outbound mail server. That's
probably how I got
confused.

I'd found references to setting up smtp auth using the list archives and
google.
The references didn't indicate which version was applicable.

Most of the stuff I found said that if the authentication wasn't
compiled in, exim wouldn't
support those options. I was seeing it as something wrong with the
compile.

I did see that version 4 has an auth_advertise_hosts option that must be
enabled.

I set it to '*' in the configure file and tried the AUTH command again,
but still no
authentication.

I will admit that at this point, I haven't actually tried to
authenticate from a mail
client. I was attempting to get the server to show that it supports
authentication
first.



What are the minimum settings to get Exim 4.02 to support SMTP AUTH?






-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-admin@??? [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org]On
Behalf Of John Horne
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:43 AM
To: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Need help setting up SMTP AUTH


On 09-Apr-2002 at 17:24:08 Dennis Pinckard wrote:
> Also, adding and uncommenting any of the following gives an unknown
> keyword error on startup:
>
>#auth_always_advertise = true
>#auth_hosts = *
>#host_auth_accept_relay = *
>

[snipped]

> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 outbound.edgia.com ESMTP Exim 4.02 Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:13:41 -0500
>

This says you are running exim 4.02, but those options are for exim
version
3 - hence the error messages. I'd suggest checking which configure file
you
are using; did you run convert4r4?


Regards,

John.

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