Rob Ristroph wrote:
> Let me give some background on what I've tried so far:
>
> -- I noticed the authenticators section in the configuration
> that came with debian, and so I make a
> "*:username:cryptedpass" entry in
^^????
"username:cryptedpass" should be enough.
> /etc/exim4/passwd.clients, but in testing exim refused to
> relay from outside my network and when I type something
> like "AUTH PLAIN" into a test smtp session ( started using
> the command "exim4 -d -bh 1.2.3.4" ) it says "503 AUTH
> command used when not advertised"
Have you used "EHLO abc.tld" before the AUTH command? exim will not
accept AUTH commands, if they were not advertised, after EHLO.
> -- If I try to send without using the AUTH, it says relay not
> allowed
And that's good :)
> I can post my config file if necessary, but what I'd really
> like is some link to a config file that is pretty close to
> what I want to do, and then I can work from it. I have read
I bet the debian-config is complete when it comes to this.
Nico