Re: [Exim] Smtp authentication.

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Author: Guillermo Llenas
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Smtp authentication.
Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:33:52AM -0300, Guillermo Llenas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:58:32AM -0300, Guillermo Llenas wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Andreas, thanks for the answer, perhaps I did not explain myself
>>>>     very well. Is correct that users of yahoo or hotmail or
>>>> whatever, does deliverys towards accounts@mydomains. But using
>>>> smtps of yahoo or hotmail like transport of those mails. What I am
>>>> saying is that if anyone of those users instead of using
>>>> smtp.hotmail.com or smtp.yahoo.com uses smtp.mydomain.com sending
>>>> mails to accounts@mydomain it can do it.
>>> [...]

>
>>> So you want to allow hotmail to deliver to you but some normal
>>> dialup-user?
>
> Your mailreader completely wrecks the quoting. Could you please
> install http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ ?
>
>> No, what I want is that everybody who wants to use my smtp as
>> transport (outgoing relay) must authenticate (that is working fine)
>> even if the destinatary are domains pointed to my server running
>> exim. ( in this last case the authentication is not working)
> [...]
>
> How are you recognizing/defining that $user is "somebody who wants to
> use my smtp as transport" and not some other regular mailserver like
> hotmail or exim.org?
>            cu andreas



Good point, thanks



Guillermo Llenas