Re: [Exim] Want to generate 553 Auth required responses

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Robinson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Want to generate 553 Auth required responses
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, John Robinson wrote:

> OK I know it's not what you're supposed to do under RFC-2554 SMTP
> Authentication, but I'd like to contrive that if a user has attempted
> authentication, and this has been failed with a 535 Auth failed, but the
> user's MUA carries on regardless, I'd like to have exim generate a 553 Auth
> required response where the user would normally (if they hadn't attempted
> authentication) have received a 550 Relaying denied.


In Exim 4 you can generate a custom message at RCPT time if the session
is not authenticated, but there isn't any way to tell whether or not
authentication was attempted.


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