Re: [exim] authentication

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Autor: Peter Bowyer
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A: exim users
Assumpte: Re: [exim] authentication
On 25/03/07, Michael Rouba <mail@???> wrote:
> Marco Wessel schrieb:
> > On Mar 24, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Michael Rouba wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> i have running an exim4 on a debian 3.1 system. I sends, receives and
> >> relays everything, i want. Just the relaying is known as a big
> >> problem.
> >> To prevent unwanted spam over the machine, i would like to use
> >> authentication at smtp connections through the clients. Well, how
> >> can i
> >> prevent exim4 to accept mail from unauthenticated clients?
> >>
> >
> > By default, exim only allows relaying by the local host,
> > authenticated clients and clients that are listed in relay_from_hosts
> > (which gets filled from the dc_relay_nets setting in debian's config
> > management.) So to allow only authenticated clients, simply don't add
> > any hosts.
> >
> I have set an Asterix in dc_relay_nets, couse i don't want the clients
> be authenticated, that was miss understandable how i wrote it, i want
> the users be authenticated.
>
> In short: Now the server accepts even mail from clients, when the users
> are not sending an authentication (login and password). What i want, is
> the relay permissions by user-authentication, not by host/net
> ip-authentication.


Since you're discussing details of the Debian-specific Exim config,
you're more likely to get help from the list referenced in your Debian
docs, and here

http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/

Peter


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