RE: [Exim] Need help setting up SMTP AUTH

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Author: John Horne
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Need help setting up SMTP AUTH
On 10-Apr-2002 at 13:08:58 Dennis Pinckard wrote:
> I did see that version 4 has an auth_advertise_hosts option that must be
> enabled.
>
> I set it to '*' in the configure file
>

It has by default a value of '*', so you shouldn't need to set it unless you
are trying to exclude hosts from seeing the AUTH capability.

> and tried the AUTH command again, but still no authentication.
>

Did you restart exim (send a HUP signal to its pid)?

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

1) Enable the option in the Makefile (which you've done I gather);
2) Create the authenticators in the configure file (which I gather you have
also done).
3) Restart exim.

All I did then was:

  telnet 0 25
  Trying 0.0.0.0...
  Connected to 0.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  220 jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk ESMTP Exim 4.02 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:17:56
         +0100
  ehlo localhost
  250-jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
  250-SIZE 52428800
  250-PIPELINING
  250-AUTH CRAM-MD5
  250 HELP




John.

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