exim & lmtp mechs

[Ken Murchison]

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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