Re: [exim] smarthost TLS authentication problem

thanks


Im going to end up with 2 smarthosts , both operating on port 465.
Do i have to do a lookup in a file rather than configure it as
separate authenticators within the file ?

On 18/11/11 21:57, Dominic Benson wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2011, at 21:21, p cooper wrote:
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>> Im trying to set up multiple SMTP smarthosts and falling at the first hurdle with the first host
>> Do i need to tell it to use the gmail_login authenticator specifically? how ?
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> The public_name of the authenticator needs to match that advertised by the smarthost - that is 'LOGIN' (and/or PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, etc.).
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> The transport isn't configured to use a specific authenticator, rather it is negotiated between the advertised methods of the server and the public names of the locally defined authenticators.
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> Especially if you're configuring multiple smarthosts, you may wish to extract the username/password from a host lookup, rather than putting them directly in the config file.
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