On 2005-08-18 Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:34:16PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Well. Depends on what you consider "try to authenticate" to be. exim4 >> will walk through the common set of remotely advertised and locally >> defined authenticators. - When "running" the authenticators it will >> try to lookup first the key "hostname of smarthost" and after that fails >> "*" in CONFDIR/passwd.client. >> With the default CONFDIR/passwd.client both lookups will fail, and the >> authenticators will stop being executed. And exim4 will not send any >> AUTH command but will simply try sending unauthenticated. [...] > Have $remote offer LOGIN and run the connection over TLS.
Ah, beloved LOGIN. This patch fixes this, by forcing failure early enough if the lookup for $host either fails or returns an empty string. It works for me, i.e. AUTH LOGIN still works afterwards and the useless AUTH is not sent anymore. ------------------- --- /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template 2005-06-28 20:06:51.000000000 +0200 +++ exim4.conf.template 2005-08-19 20:10:57.650453912 +0200 @@ -1692,7 +1692,11 @@ driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN .ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS - client_send = "${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}{}fail}\ + client_send = "${if and{\ + {!eq{$tls_cipher}{}}\ + {!eq{${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}{}}\ + }\ + {}fail}\ : ${extract{1}{::}\ {${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}} \ : ${extract{2}{::}\ ------------------- a similar change will go into the .else clause, but I am too lazy for that now. cu andreas -- "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash" http://downhill.aus.cc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]