Re: [exim] Force all local senders to authenticate

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Autore: Odhiambo Washington
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Oggetto: Re: [exim] Force all local senders to authenticate
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Oliver von Bueren <maillist@???> wrote:
> Marc Sherman wrote:
>> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> My knowledge of Exim got rusty a bit:)
>>>
>>> I'd like to achieve two conditions within exim:
>>>
>>> 1. I'd like to force all local senders (+relay_from_hosts) to
>>> authenticate before they can send out mail
>>>
>>
>> Just remove any mention of +relay_from_hosts from your config entirely,
>> and only accept messages either for local delivery or from authenticated
>> senders in your rcpt acl.
>>
>>
> And also make sure that local deliveries are only allowed either from
> authenticated senders OR non-local senders.
> Put that the other way round, don't accept local senders outside of
> authenticated sessions.
>
> I do this by separating the MUA submissions and inbound messages. MUA on
> port 587 and normal inbound SMTP on port 25. Adding TLS/SSL as an
> option, if you like to.
> On 587 only authenticated sessions are ever allowed to send any messages
> and on port 25 no messages are allowed to be sent with a sender address
> out of a local domain.


Hi Oliver,

Do you care to provide some config snippets?

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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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