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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:32:26 +0000
From:      Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Exim authentication under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <525396fb1902007fb9d1733b1afd441c@roundcube.fjl.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20180125141451.GB919@lena.kiev>
References:  <mailman.110.1516881602.62670.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20180125141451.GB919@lena.kiev>

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On 2018-01-25 14:14, Lena@lena.kiev.ua wrote:
>> 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

Thanks. This exact method is actually in the Exim documentation, but as 
you state, the port no longer exists.

Regards, Frank.



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