Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:09:10PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:37:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:48:17PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > | well it sounds good. isn't that what exim already does? (i guess
> > | not. lead on, mcduff!)
> >
> > Yeah, once you configure it.
>
> right. here's why people (read as 'non-geeks') insist that
> documentation is lacking in the linux world:
>
> 35.1 Generic options for authenticators
>
> driver
>
> Type: string
> Default: unset
>
> This option must always be set. It specifies which of the
> available authenticators is to be used.
>
> period, end of section.
>
> <rant>
> no clue given HOW to determine which "available authenticators"
> are supplied, WHAT they might be called, nor HOW TO FIND OUT.
> what is an authenticator? will "strings `which exim`" tell me?
> where are they defined? how can you make more (or less) of them
> available or change their parameters?
Did you read the immediately preceding section of the exim spec, which
describe what authenticators are and how they are made available, or the
immediately following chapters, which describe the available
authenticators in detail? It would appear not ... you've just taken a
single section in complete isolation from the text around it and ranted
about how it's, well, lacking in context. That seems quite unfair.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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