On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:47:46PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
Ciao Alessandro,
I'm using exim, authenticators and smarthost and I did not need to re-compile it
(I'm using potato).
Th only thing is that the Debian exim config script, eximconf, does not handle
authenticators,
so you need to insert manually the section in /etc/exim.conf. This is what I
did:
######################################################################
# SMNP AUTHENTICATION CONFIGURATION #
######################################################################
galactica_autenticator_login:
driver=plaintext
public_name=LOGIN
client_send=": user : password"
galactica_autenticator_cram:
driver=cram_md5
public_name=CRAM-MD5
client_name=user
client_secret= password
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The first record is used if your smarthost uses plain-text authentication
(no cripted message), the second is used if your smarthost uses MD5-based
authentication.
I added this section to the end of the file, as for exim documentation.
If you don't like having your password plain in exim.conf, I am aware
that there is a way to avoid it using exim 'lookup' mechanism
(never tried it, however)
> 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.
>
That what I do,too. Plus, I use procmail with fetchmail, to sort incoming
mail in several 'mail-folders' (I've read you can do it with exim, too, but
procmail works fine for me)
> Thanks
> Alessandro
>
Ciao
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FB
