Re: [exim] SMTP Authentication out of the box

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:02 +0000, 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.

Thanks. In fact using PAM was too painful for Fedora since I really
didn't want to get involved with making the pam_exim module generic
enough to advocate including it, and obviously I couldn't just
make /etc/shadow readable by non-root by default.

However, I've fixed the Fedora Core RPM to include Cyrus saslauthd
authentication in its default configuration file (with an empty string
in auth_advertise_hosts to disable it by default) so that Fedora users
ought to be able to get SMTP AUTH working more easily in future.

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dwmw2