Re: Exim chained authentication.

[David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:48, Luke Reeves wrote:
> So I have a laptop that I mainly use to check my e-mail.  The mail sits 
> on a server, and I access it using IMAP over SSL, and I send mail by 
> connecting to the server via SMTP where Exim (version 3) sits.  Mozilla 
> Thunderbird authenticates the connection, and the e-mail is sent.
> 
> What I'd like to do is have Exim also installed on my local machine, so 
> that I deliver mail from MUAs directly to 127.0.0.1, at which point Exim 
> will then transport/route the mail to the server.  I see in the Exim 
> configuration how to route, but I don't see how to route using 
> authentication.  Can anyone help me with this?  Thanks!

I think this is covered in the documentation. Its been a while since
I've done much exim config stuff, but I think something like this should
work.

plain:
   driver = plaintext
   client_name = billg
   client_secret = microsoft

The relevant exim docs:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_35.html#SEC763


-davidc