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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:14:51 +0200
From:      Lena@lena.kiev.ua
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: Exim authentication under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20180125141451.GB919@lena.kiev>
In-Reply-To: <c726d521863080a20d9f2399c7670a92@roundcube.fjl.org.uk>
References:  <mailman.110.1516881602.62670.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>

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> From: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk>
> 
> How do people do outgoing SMTP user-account authentication using Exim?
> 
> I'm talking about traditional user accounts (/etc/passwd) here, not 
> glorious LDAP or SQL database virtual users. If you've not come across 
> this little problem-ette, Exim does not ever run as root and therefore 
> can't check /etc/master.passwd like sendmail/saslauthd can.

I run a POP3 server (port mail/popa3d) on the same machine
and use obsolete removed port security/pam_pop3 with Exim's
server_condition = ${if pam{
and /etc/pam.d/exim :

auth required /usr/local/lib/pam_pop3.so hostname=localhost info pwprompt=Password: timeout=5
account required pam_permit.so



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