Re: [Exim] Re: need help with smtp-auth client (exim4)

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Franz Georg Köhler
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: need help with smtp-auth client (exim4)
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Franz Georg [utf-8] Köhler wrote:

> > > Can exim be forced to authentificate, even if the remote peer doesn't
> > > announce smtp-auth capability?
> >
> > No. How would it know which mechanism to use?
>
> The user would have to specify the mechanism via config file.


Any standards-conforming MTA that does not advertise authentication
should reject AUTH commands. This change is even more non-standard than
making Exim recognize the non-standard "AUTH=LOGIN" output.


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