Re: [Exim] Forwarding SMTP AUTH (RFC 2554)

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:02:21PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> At 02:14 PM 5/5/2003 -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote:
> >Thus, I hope Exim's support for SMTP AUTH provides a way to
> >forward the authentication request to another server. I mean,
> >in order to evaluate an SMTP AUTH request, Exim would
> >repeat the same request to another server; if that server
> >accepts the authentication, then Exim should also
> >permit the relay.
>
> LDAP or MySQL db on the remote server?

No. AFAIK, the users db is stored in a proprietary file
format. The only way I can think for querying the db
data is through the SMTP AUTH mechanism.

Thanks,
Everton