Re: exim4 authentication in etch? - SUCCESS!

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

Thomas H. George wrote:
> P. Lane wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >  
> > > 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
> > >     
> > Hello, I went through this also as I have Verizon as outgoing smarthost.
> > If you are using the single config file option for creating your 
> > template
> > you will have to create the "exim4.conf.localmacros" file with the line
> >  AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true
> > Save it to the /etc/exim4 directory with root permissions and then 
> > run update-exim4.conf.
> >
> >   
> This sounds right to me but I haven't got it to work.  I created the 
> file exim4.conf.localmacros with root:root ownership and xrw 
> permissions containing just the line
>
> AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true
>
> and ran update-exim4.conf.  I expected it to modify the two lines in 
> exim4.conf.template which read
>
> .ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
>
>
> but they are unchanged and when trying to send mail with exim4 I still 
> get authentication required.
>
> Tom
I found I had to add two lines to the macro:

|MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true|
|AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS=yes|

after which I stopped exim4, ran update-exim4.conf and restarted exim4.  
After this exim4 successfully sent a message.

In the process I finally understood that the macro causes 
update-exim4.conf to modify the /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated file 
rather than the exim4.conf.template file.  Neat.  As the Dean of the 
Physics Dept (a theoretical physicist) used to say, "Dumb but a plodder."

Tom