Re: [exim] POP/IMAP and Exim (4.43)

Hi Robert,

You have to places where autenticate:

a) Exim is a SMTP server, both to process mail with destination your
organization (not authenticated), and for your people when they want to
"relay" (send) email (authenticated) to the internet.

b) Courirer IMAP/POP have its own authentication scheme because is
needed when you want to get access to your mailbox

Seems to be easy, don't you think?

BR,

jonathan





Robert Cates wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it probably seems like a very obvious answer to my questions, but I'm just
> not experienced enough to know how these servers tie-in and work together...
>
> I have Courier and Exim installed and things seem to work ok, but I
> apparently do not have AUTHentication setup/configured, at least not with
> Exim. I've compiled Exim myself and included AUTH_CRAM_MD5=yes
> AUTH_PLAINTEXT=yes AUTH_SPA=yes, but when I 'telnet localhost 25' I do not
> get '250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5'.
>
> And now to my questions - do I have to configure AUTHentication in Exim, in
> Courier, or both? Do I even need POP/IMAP servers with Exim, and if not,
> what would be a situation where I'd want POP/IMAP servers running?
>
> As I see it, POP/IMAP servers are there to act as the front-end to the MTA
> for MUAs, which is why I'm wondering if I even need to configure
> AUTHentication in Exim, but I'm just not sure.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Robert
>
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