[Pkg-exim4-users] How to Connect to smtp.gmail.com with different login/password pairs

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hey Ian,

> Yes, that would be one simple solution.

Well, not that simple (for me) actually, sorry.

> > I'll wait a bit to see whether other suggestions come in
> > and, if not, try this one. I am slightly reluctant because it  makes me
> > create yet another thing (a transport) and it will mean that this one
> > password will be apart from others, but if that's the only way I'll go
> > for that.
> >
> > I guess, ideally, what would be nice would be that the smarthost
> > transport would let a router specify a login and then it would be
> > possible to pick the password from the passwd.client file. Just that the
> > login should be able to contain @ signs because that's how GMail logins
> > are and quite possibly other providers (HotMail?) would need the support
> > for @ in logins.
> 
> Well, i wouldn't have this new transport look at a file that is
> formatted like passwd.client. What I would do is look for some data that
> is unique to the router, perhaps even the router name, then create a new
> file format which uses that as the key for a lookup, and that goes in
> the transport.

Well as I said I think I could live with a password hard-coded in the
dedicated transport but even that I don't know how to achieve.

Basically, I can copy/past the "remote_smtp_smarthost" transport and
create, say, a "copany_remote_smtp_smarthost" one but evenif I do that,
the  thing I will need to change in the copied transport is the
definition of "hosts_try_auth". Is there a syntax to write a login /
passowrd / host in the definition of this macro directly?

Sébastien.