Re: [Exim] relay problem

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Gary Ferrer
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] relay problem

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Gary Ferrer wrote:

> 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.


You set host_accept_relay to the IP addresses of the hosts you want to
let relay, regardless of auth.

If you want to allow any host to relay that has authenticated, set
auth_host_accept_relay = *, and then setup the SMTP AUTH part. See the
exim specification.

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> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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