Re: exim4 authentication in etch?
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:15:01AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> See http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch07.en.html#theconfigurationofexime
>
> Thank you for this reference. I believe it confirms what I believe to
> be the problem, namely verizon must require "|MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true|"
> and "|AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS=yes|" The question is how to
> modify the exim4.conf.template file. Note that my system is Etch and
> that the Debian installation of exim4 does not include -or at least I
> cannot find - exim4.conf.localmacros.
Did you read update-exim4.conf(8) That should answer it.
FYI: lenny one does not have exim4.conf.localmacros either.
You have to create it.
> I will try again editing
> exim4.conf.template.
>> (This is part of new Debian Reference for lenny.
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReference)
>>
>>> The line I put in passwd.client is,
>>> "outgoing.verizon.net:my-user-name:my-password", which is my
>>> understanding of the man page instructions. I am attaching the tail
>>> of the mainlog entries which show exim4 obtained an IP address for
>>> outgoing.verizon.net.
>>>
>>
>> The host name in /etc/exim4/passwd.client should not be the alias. You
>> check the real host name with:
>>
>> $ host outgoing.verizon.net
>>
> $ host outgoing.verizon.net
> outgoing.verizon.net has address 206.45.232.12
>
> There is no indication of an alias.
Good. That makes life easy for you.
Osamu
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