On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:15:09 +0800, Niclas Hedhman
<niclas@???> wrote:
>I recently did the mistake of upgrading both my KMail client (to v1.7) and
>Exim4 (whatever version is in Debian testing)...
From which exim version did you update? Did SMTP AUTH work before?
Did you read the docs, especially README.Debian.gz and
README.SMTP-AUTH, both in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base?
>Now, authenticated SMTP no longer works, no matter what I try. In KMail's
>"Check what the server supports" also yields different results in KMail 1.7
>and KMail 1.8, so I am utterly confused.
Did you try with other software, such as telnet, gnutls-cli and/or
swaks?
>On the server, I do an extraction of mail-users from /etc/shadow and creates a
>new /etc/exim4/passwd for authentication.
If you insist on using system passwords for authentication (which
might be a bad idea because e-mail passwords are usually stored in the
client software and notoriously bad protected), there are methods to
have exim authenticate directly against the system passwords. These
methods are also mentioned in the docs.
Greetings
Marc
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