You would use an encrypted session to avoid sending your username / password
details over a plain tlext session.
The fact you have username / password to receive email is unrlated, as
that's your POP3/IMAP server, and not exim.
As far as the "authentication" you think you currently have, it's more
likely just be be something like allowing relaying from your local LAN.
Also, unless you are using Exim 3, then you don't need the Oreilly book, you
need the Exim4 book publised by UIT Cambridge.
http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book/
-Andy-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Thoraval [mailto:samuel.thoraval@librophyt.com]
> Sent: 12 May 2006 11:28
> To: exim-users@???; dot@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] sending mail from outside
>
>
> Thanks a lot but it doesn't help me much...
>
> I have been through chapter 33 about authentication. It
> refers to many other chapters since you first need to
> understand where to set the options mentioned in that
> chapter, you also need to understand how exim -hb works for
> testing. Basicly this documentation requires that you already
> have a good understanding of the way exim4 works (and hence
> that you've been thruogh the documentation from the start),
> which I don't.
> Beside I don't really understand what I could change there
> since I already have authentication working somehow as I am
> able to send/receive email from localnetwork and receiving
> from outside with login/password.
> I first thought it would more likely be some relaying problem...
>
> About the TLS chapter, I don't see the point. What if I don't
> want any encrypted connections ?
>
> Well I guess I just won't be able to fix that quickly without
> going through some long and painfull readings. Sorry if I
> seem unwhilling, it is just that I have other priorities at
> the moment, that sys admin is not really my job and that I
> would have liked to quickly solve the problem. May be I will
> be better of buying the Philip Hazel's Exim book from Oreilly.
>
>
> Cheers and thanks anyway
>
>
>
> Tony Finch a écrit :
>
> >On Fri, 12 May 2006, Samuel Thoraval wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is there any simple procedure to set up exim4 for this purpose ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You want to configure authentication and TLS. See chapters
> 33 and 38 of
> >the spec.
> >
> >Tony.
> >
> >
>
>
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