Hi,

Thanks you very much. This did the trick!

> On 6. Apr 2018, at 15:56, Stephan Bosch <stephan@rename-it.nl> wrote:
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> Op 6-4-2018 om 13:52 schreef Paul Hecker:
>> Hi,
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>> Dovecot 2.3.1 (8e2f634). Could not get Dovecot to forward the (plain) authentication to the SMTP server using submission. Reason why I need it is sender spoofing (do not want my employees to send messages in behalf of me).
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>> In exim I can disable sender spoofing with the authenticated user. When sending through dovecot, exim either does not accept the email (need auth) or relay every sender address (because relaying from localhost).
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>> Am I missing a setting or do I need any additional field in the (MySQL) user_query/password_query to forward the password?
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>> You can find my config here:
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>> https://gist.github.com/lluuaapp/7daddf761131da47237b0f45e6bab5a8
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> That would be possible using the following SMTP AUTH feature:
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> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4954#section-5
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> Which is apparently supported by Exim: https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-smtp_authentication.html#SECTauthparamail
> This requires explicit configuration, so it will not work out of the box.

Here is what I did:

I had to add the acl_smtp_mailauth to only allow this on a certain port. Then I had to duplicate my code for sender spoofing for authenticated users and change the $authenticated_id -> $authenticated_sender.

Besides that, I must use TLS (in my case STARTTLS) so that Dovecot actually sends the MAIL AUTH parameter.

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> The Dovecot Submission service should support this too. It sends an AUTH parameter with the MAIL command (currently only then the username is a valid SMTP address). However, I must say, I haven't tested this recently.

I can confirm that it works (only with TLS with my current configuration, see above).

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> I can try this in a few days. Feel free to experiment with this yourself.
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> Regards,
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> Stephan.

Thanks again,
Paul