Package: exim4-base Version: 4.50-8 Severity: normal Tags: patch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCr7Yn4J/vJdlkhKwRApZcAJ9D12Ex2CqivLbGCWnsxDkvcLzwbQCfYbT5 aA8xXOMKc0wrkOg6/wvA5bA= =8dax -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--- /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). -------------------------------- @@ -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
