Re: exim4 authentication in etch?

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

Chris Davies wrote:
> Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
>   
> > 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.
> >     
>
> Yes, that's the correct format. But it's not what you wrote first time.
>
>
>   
> > 2008-10-03 13:46:38 1KlojQ-0001e8-8A <= root@tomgeorge.info U=root P=local S=316
> > 2008-10-03 13:46:38 1KlojQ-0001e8-8A ** mail@tomgeorge.info R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<root@tomgeorge.info> SIZE=1348: host outgoing.verizon.net [206.46.232.12]: 550 5.7.1 Authentication Required
> >     
>
>
> Ah. You're using outgoing.verizon.net as your smarthost. (I don't recall
> you saying that, either.)
>
> The hostname component is matched to the target address, which most of
> the time will probably not be your smarthost. So in order to make this
> work you will need to change the hostname to "*" so that the rule applies
> to all outgoing email regardless of actual destination.
>
> Chris
>   
Tried *:my-user-name:my-password with the same result: Authentication 
Required.

Poured through the /usr/share/doc/exim4 documentation (also exim4-base 
and exim4-config) which insist there is a file exim4-conf-localmacros 
which can be set to modify line 1895 .ifndef 
AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS in the exim4-conf-template file.  I 
have done all sorts of searches for exim4-conf-localmacros without 
success but there is a directory /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth which contains a 
dummy file 00_exim4-config_header and a file 30_exim4-config_examples 
duplicating the relevant section of the exim-conf-template file.  If 
this is what is meant to be a macro I don't know how to use it.  I tried 
brute force - i.e. changing line 1895 to 
AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true.  update-exim4.conf did not 
like this.

Tom