Re: [exim] Exim4 As Spam Filter but Authenticate external SM…

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: ocl discussins, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim4 As Spam Filter but Authenticate external SMTP to different instance
What makes you think it wouldn't?



On 4/7/08, ocl discussins <ocldiscuss@???> wrote:
> I hope this makes sense, so here it goes:
>
> I am running 2 instances of Exim: eximFilter listening on port 25 on 1
> server and eximMail listening on port 26 on a second server. eximMail is
> configured such that the users, domains, and mailbox locations are stored in
> a mySQL database. eximFilter simply uses a hubbed_hosts file to pass
> everything through to eximMail. This is actually an oversimplification of
> what is being done, but will serve the purpose for this discussion.
>
> The problem is that external mail users (ie., users from home using mail
> clients) need to be able to send mail through eximFilter, but must first
> authenticate before sending. I don't want to duplicate my user listing on
> eximFilter server, but am also thinking if I configure eximFilter to read
> the mySQL database on eximMail it won't pass messages through as it should.
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might handle this scenario?
>
> tia!
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