Re: [Exim] SMTP authentication

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Autor: Andreas Metzler
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [Exim] SMTP authentication
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:14:30PM -0400, Eli wrote:
> I just got SMTP authentication working on my server, and I tested to
> see if I could then authenticate to the server to relay mail out of
> it - and it let me (which is what I wanted), but it left me
> wondering why.


Because you configured it that way.

> Does Exim automatically enable a user who is authenticated to relay
> out of the server?

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No.
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.20/doc/html/spec_7.html#SECT7.1
| accept authenticated = *

|Control reaches here for attempts to relay to arbitrary domains from
|arbitrary hosts. The statement accepts the address only if the client
|host has authenticated itself. The default configuration does not
|define any authenticators, which means that no client can in fact
|authenticate. You will need to add authenticator definitions if you
|want to make use of this ACL statement.

If you don't have "accept authenticated = *" in your ACLs
authentication does not grant relay permission.

              cu andreas