Author: Jacob Rose Date: To: John Robinson CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] authenticate_hosts "unknown" despite exim -bV listing
plaintext authentication
That was exactly it - I guess I was looking at the docs for exim 3? Thanks
so much!
On 12/12/06, John Robinson <john.robinson@...> wrote: >
> On 12/12/2006 23:40, Jacob Rose wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to Exim, and having a bit of a problem. I want to authenticate
> with
> > my ISP's SMTP server, but so far no success.
> >
> > exim -bV says (among other things):
> > Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
> >
> > Yet, when I add authenticate_hosts = smtp.my.isp to the remote_smtp
> block
> > inside transports, running exim -bV also says:
> >
> > 2006-12-12 18:38:01 Exim configuration error in line 515 of
> > /etc/exim/exim.conf:
> > option "authenticate_hosts" unknown
> >
> > Is there a clue in the house?
>
> Try hosts_require_auth and/or host_try_auth in your smtp transport, as
> per
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.63/doc/html/spec_html/ch33.html#id2662980 >
>
