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has caused the Debian Bug report #291633,
regarding eximconfig should set up SMTP AUTH as part of option #2 smarthost
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Package: exim
Version: 3.36-11
Severity: normal
Smarthost relaying requiring proper authentication is not exactly
uncommon, but requires manual mucking about in exim.conf after running
eximconfig. This is really dumb. I can't believe I wasted an afternoon
figuring this out.
It would be nice if the sequence of questions (in /usr/sbin/eximconfig
near line 324) was:
Which machine will act as the smarthost and handle outgoing mail?
What is your username at this smarthost (blank for no authentication) ?
(if username) What is your password at this smarthost?
However, I recognize that writing perl code to auto-generate the
password section will take some time. As a kludge, eximconfig could
say
Which machine will act as the smarthost and handle outgoing mail?
WARNING: If your smarthost requires authentication you will
have to add username and password to your configuration
manually. Instructions are in the remote_smtp section of exim.conf.
If you are not inspired to start working on the first solution or some
compromise right away, please take thirty seconds to add the kludge.
It would be a single print statement on line 334 and would save some
other poor schmuck some time.
Thanks for your sixty seconds.
Rob
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (995, 'testing'), (30, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages exim depends on:
ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-20 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii libident 0.22-2.2 simple RFC1413 client library - ru
ii libldap2 2.1.30-3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
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Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy phone: 865.974.8097
University of Tennessee fax: 865.974.7843
Knoxville, TN 37996 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.36-18.2+rm
The exim package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/420191 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Barry deFreese
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