Bug#364690: exim4-config: Help setting up as a SMTP AUTH client would be useful

[Tony Houghton]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.61-1
Severity: wishlist

Many ISPs seem to require plaintext authentication nowadays. I happened
to miss the appropriate documentation (I looked in exim4-doc-html
instead of exim4-base) and had great difficulty configuring exim4 to
authenticate as a client. It would be helpful if exim4-config could ask
users if they want to support plain text authentication and set
AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS if so; a hint to edit passwd.client
(maybe with a warning about #244724 if that's still a problem) would
help too.

I've seen #314184 and agree with the maintainers that the proposed patch
was inappropriate, but I still think it would be a good idea for
exim4-config to help with this in some way.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.61 #1 built 04-Apr-2006 19:53:57
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
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
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.85       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

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