Marc Haber <mh+exim-users@???> (Mi 10 Jan 2007 12:52:08 CET):
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:17:39 +0100, Heiko Schlittermann
> <hs@???> wrote:
> >Not tested (and modulo syntax errors) *could* do the trick:
> >
> > hosts_require_auth = ${if exists{CONFIG_DIR/passwd.client} \
> > { ${lookup{$host}lsearch{CONFIG_DIR/passwd.client}{$host_address}} }\
> > {} \
> > }
>
> I changed this to
>
> | hosts_try_auth = ${if exists{CONFDIR/passwd.client} \
> | { ${lookup{$host}nwildlsearch{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$host_address}} }\
> | {} \
> | }
>
> and this seems to work fine at least fot the test cases I did. Thanks
> >(Or use hosts_try_auth because the hosts_require_auth isn't mentioned in
> >30.2 of the spec.)
>
> Debian exim4 uses hosts_try_auth. I do not have an idea whether this
> makes sense or not.
I'd use hosts_require_auth, because *IFF* I have some entry in
passwd.client I'd suppose that this host *needs* authentication.
With hosts_try_auth it can happen that auth failes for some reason (as
it did) and exim tries to deliver w/o auth, getting 5xx and returning
the message. For my feeling it's not what I'd expect. I'd expect
exim retrying with auth until it succeeds or the message expires.
PS:
> for helping! I hope your wife and your kid are fine.
Wife: fine
Kid: fine, but still inside my wife .... it's late about two weeks now.
:)
Best regards from Dresden
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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