Re: [Exim] Authentication and Netscape 4.7x

Clive McDowell wrote:
> sorry if the answer to this is in the archives but I can't get
> the search to work this morning.

The site maintainer noted this in an earlier thread and mentioned this
came from a webserver upgrade.

> want it to. However, we have a small number of users on site using
> Netscape 4.7x versions and these seem to insist on using SMTP
> authentication even though the server doesn't demand it. Is there
> any way of configuring these versions of Netscape to stop them doing
> this? If not, is there any change that can be made to the exim
> configuration to prevent it?

# Do not advertize auth clients that can relay (otherwise netscape will try to
# auth, even if it is not required)
auth_advertise_hosts = !+netscape_hosts : *

Where the +netscape_hosts is a hostlist.

Regards

D.