On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:44:54PM +1000, Andrew Nelson wrote:
> I found this code in the documentation and put it in the
> authentication section of my config, but still get "relay not
> permitted" (even when configuring outlook with the username
> and password ("ph10", "secret")..
> fixed_plain:
> driver = plaintext
> public_name = PLAIN
> server_prompts = :
> server_condition = \
> ${if and {{eq{$2}{ph10}}{eq{$3}{secret}}}{yes}{no}}
> server_set_id = $2
> I've read through all the authentication sections of the docs
> and still can't make it work! telnetting to port 25 and entering
> HELO doesn't show up any AUTH stuff..
Aaron is right, you need EHLO.
> Exim should have been compiled with it (its in the freebsd port)..
> How do I tell exim to look for username/passwords before spitting
> out "relay not permitted" ?
Iirc even the rcpt-ACL in the default configuration file includes
accept authenticated = *
and accept authenticated defaults to "*", perhaps the client does not do
AUTH PLAIN properly?
telnet server 25
ehlo your.host.name
AUTH PLAIN AHBoMTAAc2VjcmV0
cu andreas
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