Søren Hansen wrote: > --
> I'm quite new at Exim, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting SMTP
> authentication to work.
>
> Here are the relevant bits of exim.conf:
>
> host_auth_accept_relay = *
>
> plain:
> driver = plaintext
> public_name = PLAIN
> server_condition = "${if
> crypteq{$2}{${extract{1}{:}{${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd}{$value}{*:*}}}}}{1}{0}}"
> server_set_id = $1
>
> I want it to work with most clients. I haven't done SMTP authentication
> before so I don't really know which are the most common mechanisms..
>
> My /etc/exim/passwd contains but a single line:
> sha:foo
>
> I'm not sure how to interpret that server_condition (as I said, I'm
> quite new to exim). I can hardly even break it into parts. This is my
> guess:
> ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd}{$value}{*:*}}
>
> lsearch can look through text files. lookup calls lsearch and tells it
> to search for a key $1. My guess is that $1 expands to the username
> supplied in the SMTP AUTH string by the client, correct?
> If so, the password "foo" is returned to extract. Extract returns the
> first field seperated by ":"'s, which in this case is "foo", right?
> Now this is crypteq'ed to $2, which I'm guessing is the password from
> SMTP AUTH. So far so good.. What is /etc/exim/passwd supposed to look
> like to make this work? I can't seem to figure it out.
