Re: [Exim] new to exim/smtp authorization

> > host_auth_accept_relay = *
> >
> > If I remove that rule, everything is okay, but Exim does not do smtp
> > authorization. (Which seems obvious to me...) What I don't understand is
> > why that line, which seems to be somewhat important to this process,
> > causes such issue. My only thought is that there should be more involved
> > that I am missing?
>
> You don't say what version of Exim or report what the error you receive
is.
>
> However it sounds like you may be using Exim 4 and host_auth_accept_relay
is
> an option which only exists in Exim 3. In Exim 4 it and many other options
> were replaced by they ACL structure.
>
> See Chapter 32 of the Exim 4 specification for details on doing SMTP AUTH
in
> Exim 4. And if in fact you're using Exim 3, then you'll need to be more
> specific about the errors you receive. Look in your log files for that
> information.

The following are the errors reported in exim_panic.log:

2002-08-02 11:53:12 Exim configuration error
main option "host_auth_accept_relay" unknown in line 127

As to version... *ponder* I'm currently trying to determine how to pull that
information out of Exim...

Jay Drake