> This
> does not work though.
We work with Exim 3.33 and relaying is workinfg pretty good.
There was a post from Mark Lehrer not long ago.
Go to the archivs and search for
SMTP Authentication success on Red hat 7.2 w/ PAM
Marks configuration works smoothly with Exim 3.33 and Mandrake.
Only in order to guard against confusion:
As a basic principle every host is allowed to send mail to your mailserver.
Relaying means "to hand down" not "to receive".
Your mailserver relays a mail if he pass it to another one.
Every host which it's specified in 'host_accept_relay' can relay across your
server.
If you like you can do the following:
1. Follow Marks directions to set up a simple cleartext authentication.
2. Define all hosts which should be able to relay directly (without authentification)
in host_accept_relay.
3. Set host_auth_accept_relay = *
4. SIGHUP Exim
If you use SSL you can prevent that the passwords travel as cleartext over the
network (if the client like so).
- oliver
You wrote today:
> I can't figure out how to setup SMTP authentication. My understanding of
> the text is that for a client on the internet to use exim as an SMTP host
> i need to set the 'host_accept_relay' to the domain of the client. This
> does not work though.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
