exim configuration (Authenticators)
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
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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).
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