Re: exim & lmtp mechs

From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 19:55:46 EST


TN wrote:

>
> Ken Murchison wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not an Exim expert (in fact, I've never used it), but from reading
>> Philip's post, it appears that Exim will not pass AUTH= unless it has
>> authenticated to lmtpd (although RFC 2554 states that this is not
>> required). By pre-authing lmtpd (lmtpd -a), you're preventing Exim
>> from authenticating, unless you can find a way to tell Exim that it
>> can use the EXTERNAL mechanism. My guess is that if you remove the -a
>> option (and connect via TCP) that Exim will do what you want.
>>
> Hi Ken, thanks for the feedback.
>
> I thought the same as you & Philip, but if I remove pre-auth, then lmtp
> offers no AUTH mechs at all.

The you probably have a SASL config problem.

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