Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:07:55PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> >anybody got a pointer to an english version of how to set up
> >smtp authentication via exim 3.3?
>
> I won't pretend to own a clue, myself. Maybe you should try
> the O'Reilly book, _Exim_, "Official Guide For Release 3", by
> Philip Hazel (talk about straight from the horse's mouth).
> Chapter 15, *Authentication, Encryption, and Other SMTP
> Processing* would seem to be the answer to your problem.
>
> The author cites common cases, among them;
>
> "An employee with a laptop is away from base, and wants to
> be able to connect from arbitrary locations and send
> outgoing mail via the server back at home. Even without a
> laptop, someone might want to do this from a cybercafe, or
> other 'foreign' client.
>
> "An employee has a dial-up ISP account at home that uses a
> different IP address each time a new connection is made, so
> host_accept_relay cannot be used."
yep, that's exactly the solution i'm looking for. and from your
excerpt (thanks much, for that, by the way) i can tell it's not
just an exact replica of the manual.
$ grep -ri cybercafe /usr/share/doc/exim/manual.html/
$
cool. my hopes rise... (and thank you for that.)
> --
> gt kk5st@sbcglobal
> If what you're doing doesn't work, stop doing it.
tell me about it. i've been quite nearly there.
(if i get this nailed before my sanity leaves for dubuque, i'll
CERTAINLY post my own how-to, probably as a permanent addition
to the newbiedoc project. if not, i'll miss my mind sumthin'
turribul.)
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