Exim relaying for local host - authentication required error

[prophecy]

How can i set it up so localhost can relay without any other authentication?

 

[nobaloney]

Hmmm... talk about show-stopping problems ; I'd bet most of us have clients who want their form output sent to their isp-based email address.

Not to mention those of us who want to get our own admin emails that way.

I've already brought this problem to Johns attention, but my question to you since I don't have time to check this morning (I have to take my car to the shop) is:

Does this occur when you've got authenticated smtp turned off?

Now that pop before smtp is available authenticated smtp is no longer a requirement, so this might be a workaround.

Jeff

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

For exim 4 users (prophecy)... you might need to change "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" (which might be done for you already prophecy) under the relay_hosts option:

hostlist relay_hosts = net-lsearch;/etc/virtual/pophosts : 127.0.0.1

This is because exim 4 now has list types (domainlist or hostlist) where it matters. Also, exim 4 config will have to add

accept  domains = +relay_domains

to the check_recipients directive. This should be available in the exim 4 rpm for exim 4 beta testers soon.
Exim 3 users might want change it too... but I think that it uses list types, so localhost might work as is.

host_accept_relay = net-lsearch;/etc/virtual/pophosts : 127.0.0.1

John

 

[prophecy]

Thanks to John, it's all good now.