Bug#244724: if authentication is used, exim4 does not use hostname given by user as index

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:18:30PM +0200, Andre Heynatz wrote:
> I tried to configure exim4 for my ISP's mail account, 1&1. The hostname 
> given by 1&1:
> 
> auth.mail.onlinehome.de
> 
> I created a passwd.client file with the following content:
> 
> auth.mail.onlinehome.de:myusername:mypassword
> 
> and changed other settings as described in 
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.SMTP-AUTH.

This has become a recurring issue and is documented now in
the exim4-config_files(5) man page.

Greetings
Marc

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