Exim and *outgoing* AUTH?
Greetings-
Telocity, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to use SMTP AUTH instead of
originating IP to verify SMTP clients. This presents problems for me,
since I have exim pointing at smtp.telocity.com. Furthermore, it doesn't
reject messages outright (that would be too simple and
standards-based). Instead, it just accepts them and silently eats them,
so I didn't know until I innocently asked my father-in-law if he'd
received a message I sent him. Arrgh. Anyway....
Is there a way to configure exim (running in smarthost mode) to use SMTP
AUTH for outgoing mail? I'm currently running:
nujoma:/var/log/exim# exim -bV
Exim version 3.12 #1 built 08-Jun-2001 14:21:07
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1999
but would be perfectly happy to run a different version if
necessary. Everything can be authenticated using my Telocity ID,
regardless of what local user it's coming from.
<rant>
Why can't a single reasonably-priced DSL service seem go get it
right? There are perfectly good internet standards for dealing with these
sorts of things, and they feel they have to reinvent the wheel -- and
make it square to boot!
</rant>
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Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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