Re: [exim] exim 4.4 authentication

Ian Firla wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been fighting with an Exim 4.4 configuration today. It's running
> on Debian Sarge.
>
> I imported and converted my old Exim 3 configuration file and after a
> bit of tweaking, I got exim starting without any warnings; however,
> smtp authentication is still not working. Not having any errors to go
> by, I don't really know where to begin.
>
> Telneting to the server a feeding it an ehlo gives me:
>
> 250-l41 Hello 213-156-52-112.fastres.net [213.156.52.112]
> 250-SIZE 52428800
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-STARTTLS
> 250 HELP
>
> I was expecting a 250-AUTH line there.
>
> I'm not very familiar with Exim 4. So much is probably obvious... I
> don't think it's appropriate for me to post my entire exim4.conf here
> but I have read the example configuration files and tried to use those
> as a model. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ian

Have you defined any authenticators? If you can't post your config then
at least post what you have after the 'begin authenticators' section.
Exim wont advertise auth unless you have them defined.


Regards

Paul