I have problems in configuring exim using a remote server as smarthost, because I don't know how to tell exim my username and password on the smarthost.
I have posed the question to the exim-users mailing list, and they have replied that I need to use exim AUTHENTICATORS. As my exim has been built by dpkg without support for the latter, they suggest I have to RECOMPILE exim. (See forwarded message below.) Is there an easier way to do this under Debian? I would like to use exim for local and outgoining messages and fetchmail for incoming ones. Is there any other way to achieve the same result? Thanks Alessandro ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Quoth Alessandro Ghigi on Tue, Aug 22, 2000: > I have glanced through the 278 pages of the Exim > Specification. What I understand till now is that my Exim has not the code > for handling the Authentication (the commands > > exim -bP authenticator_list > exim -bP authenticators > > return nothing). > > Do I need then to download the source of Exim and compile it following the > instructions on the quoted specification? Yes. You'll need to edit Local/Makefile (as described in the documentation) and uncomment AUTH_CRAM_MD5=yes or something similar. And add authentication configuration to your Exim config file. > Is there an easier way to let the exim work? Is there any > configuration script doing this job for me (I have a Debian Linux). Not what I'm aware of. It's long time since I used Debian, but I don't think they have configuration scripts capable of creating any non-trivial configuration. Get the latest Debian source package for Exim. Edit Local/Makefile. I would advise you to upgrade Exim to 3.16 while you're at it (if you copy the directory Local over, you should probably be alright). --------------------------------------------------------------------
