Re: [exim] SMTP Authentication out of the box

Tommy Butler <tommy@???> wrote:
> 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.

The Exim docs, like the product itself, are open source and supported by the
efforts of the maintainer and a group of volunteers. Your comments seem to
suggest that you think they owe you something - I think you'll find that's
not the case.

Please feel free to contribute, I'm sure Philip would be most appreciative.

References to specific parts of the documenhtation, and your ideas on how
they could be improved, would be most effective - help others learn from
your experiences.

Peter