{"id":229,"date":"2008-09-27T00:53:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T22:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-11-06T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T09:32:33","slug":"if-youre-setting-up-exim-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/if-youre-setting-up-exim-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re setting up exim from scratch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and you&#8217;re a bloody novice like me, you&#8217;ll probably stumble upon <a href=\"http:\/\/marc.merlins.org\/linux\/exim\/\">Marc Merlin&#8217;s &#8220;Very detailled and featureful configuration example&#8221;<\/a>. If you use that one and you wonder why on earth people can&#8217;t authenticate against your local SMTP via PAM, you seek hours and hours in different places, forums, IRC and whatnot, and all you get in <code>\/var\/log\/exim4\/mainlog<\/code> is a couple of these:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2008-09-26 22:35:15 svr_auth_login authenticator failed for &lt;hostname> [&lt;clientip>]:61588 I=[&lt;serverip>]:25: 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=&lt;login>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>make sure \/etc\/shadow is actually readable by Debian-exim, the exim4 user, f.e. by adding him to the shadow group&#8230; D&#8217;oh!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask me how this worked in the original debian configuration (which unfortunately did not work for me in a couple of other places, otherwise I&#8217;d have stuck to it) &#8211; from what I&#8217;ve seen I believe it somehow used the courier installed on the same machine to do the authentification.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltadevelopment.de\/users\/christoph\/exim\/\">this page<\/a> which made me find the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and you&#8217;re a bloody novice like me, you&#8217;ll probably stumble upon Marc Merlin&#8217;s &#8220;Very detailled and featureful configuration example&#8221;. If you use that one and you wonder why on earth people can&#8217;t authenticate against your local SMTP via PAM, you seek hours and hours in different places, forums, IRC and whatnot, and all you get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/if-youre-setting-up-exim-from-scratch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you&#8217;re setting up exim from scratch&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian-ubuntu-administration","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}