Re: [Exim] Exim 4 and AUTH over TLS only

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Author: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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To: Harald Schueler
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4 and AUTH over TLS only
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Harald Schueler wrote:

> When trying to convert our outgoing servers to Exim 4, I noticed that
> "auth_over_tls_hosts" is gone (handled by ACLs).


> (I tried advertising AUTH only to clients which really have to AUTH to
> be allowed to relay, but this lead to other problems with roaming
> notebooks (sometimes on our network, sometimes over other ISPs) and mail
> clients which use fixed settings for TLS and AUTH, and which depend on
> seeing AUTH, once configured to authenticate to the server.)


Do the notebooks have the same IP when on your network and with
another ISP ? I'd have thought that that was a good case for DHCP,
and then your servers would be able to tell which network the
notebook is on.

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@???    http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna