Bug#244724: EXIM-AUTH

[Marc Haber]

tags #244724 upstream
user exim4 at packages.debian.org
usertags #244724 valid-bug
thanks

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:25:47PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I forgot to attache diff.
> Here is one.

I have committed some changes to svn. Thanks for providing a great
starting point.

Relevant to this bug may also be the discussion following
http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050221/msg00348.html,
the essence of the outcome being Andreas writing:
  > We'll need to use a smarter lookup with or or save the original name
  > in $hosts_data.
That smarter lookup has, however, not proven to be done easily, since
we need to search for a line in passwd.client where the first field
resolves to the IP we're connected to. This query-style lookup for
text files is not yet possible in exim
(http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65).

The better possibility would be to select the authenticator in the
transport where we still know the configured smarthost name for
directly matching against passwd client. This also is not yet
possible in exim (http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66).

Since it would be extraordinarily hard to solve this with current exim
(unless a new exciting idea comes up), I am going to tag this bug
upstream and let it rot away until exim provides means to do this
easier.

Greetings
Marc

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