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Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.50-8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
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Description of authentication in README.SMTP-AUTH does not
differentiate well position of exim4 as a server and the one as
a client. Attached patch hopefully makes things slightly more
clear.
Matej
- -- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.50 #1 built 27-May-2005 08:08:19
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis
nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file
dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='vysocina'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='chelcicky:localhost'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='true'
dc_relay_nets='192.168.0.0/24'
dc_smarthost='smtp.seznam.cz'
#dc_smarthost='mitmanek'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
mailname:chelcicky.vysocina
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.11
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii cron 3.0pl1-87 management of regular background p
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim4-config [exim4-con 4.50-8 configuration for the exim MTA (v4
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii passwd 1:4.0.3-31sarge5 change and administer password and
- -- debconf information:
exim4/purge_spool: false
exim4/move_exim3_spool: false
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--- /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.SMTP-AUTH 2005-05-27 03:59:31.000000000
-0400
+++ README.SMTP-AUTH 2005-06-15 00:42:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
If you need to enable them for unencrypted connections because your
service provider does support neither TLS encryption nor the CRAM MD5
-authentication method, you can do so by setting the appropriate macro
-as mentioned in the comments in the configuration file [3].
+authentication method, you can do so by setting the macro
+AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS in /etc/exim4/exim.conf.localmacros
+(method of creating local macros mentioned in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz).
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@@ -45,9 +46,4 @@
[1] Not present on woody, sorry.
[2] adduser Debian-exim sasl
-[3] If you are using split configuration (dc_use_split_config='true'
-in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf), the file to edit is
-/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples. If you are not using
-split configuration, your file is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
-
# vim:tabstop=3:expandtab:shiftwidth=3:textwidth=73
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:35:15AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Please re-work or close this bug.
Submitter does not seem to be interested any more. Closing the bug.
Greetings
Marc
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