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?
[...]
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
