Re: [exim] SMTP Authentication out of the box

Ron McKeating wrote:

> For those of you who wanted to know what the solution was here is a
> detailed note for your info. This will allow you to do authenticated
> smtp over ssl with the standard exim just using pam.

[snip]

> With the above we are able to do authenticated smtp using standard out
> of the box exim and the standard pam modules that come with linux.
> So no need for sassl authd or pam_exim or anything else, it all just
> works.
>
> Hope this is cluefull to those of you trying to do the same.

Very clueful, but hardly "out of the box" as it were... "Out of the box"
doesn't require 70 lines of high quality how-to to work. (and this was just
that --a high quality howto)

So how about adding this to the docs? In fact, why the @#&$! not? The docs are
so unhelpful at the present. That's my opinion anyway. I've only had success
in working with exim due to the support of others in the community or howto's I
found online. The docs offered me no help at all. To be frank, they could well
have been non-existent for all the help they offered.

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Tommy Butler
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