Re: [exim] combining authentication methods

> Of course that's what I did first.
> exim said:
> 435 Unable to authenticate at present (set_id=*********): {1

ok. just kill the first "{":
"${lookup mysql{"
instead of
"{${lookup mysql{".

>> And what use is the "{*:*}"? I'd rather use "fail" (without brackets!)
>> or
>> somebody could use "*:*" as a password for unknown users...
> thanks for this advice. It was - and still is - the Debian defaut. I did
> not change it, because I thought they know it better than me. I will
> change it immediately.

sorry, that was wrong. The result will be used by "extract", which returns
*, and the result of "crypt" will never be *, so it was ok.