Add server_condition to all authenticators, to allow for additional

[exim.git] / src / src / auths / README

diff --git a/src/src/auths/README b/src/src/auths/README
index 9143b9e918bbeb76313151381d115e053eb49fb4..83fcab44890123f6040e9b72104f81c2b9dbf0e0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/auths/README
+++ b/src/src/auths/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/src/src/auths/README,v 1.4 2006/02/10 14:25:43 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/src/src/auths/README,v 1.6 2006/10/16 15:44:36 ph10 Exp $
 
 AUTHS
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ The yield of a server authentication check must be one of:
   DEFER       couldn't complete the check
   FAIL        authentication failed
   CANCELLED   authentication forced to fail by "*" response to challenge,
-                or by a forced string expansion failure
+                or by certain forced string expansion failures
   BAD64       bad base64 data received
   UNEXPECTED  unexpected data received
 
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ The yield of a client authentication check must be one of:
   FAIL        failed after reading a response;
               either errno is set (for timeouts, I/O failures) or
               the buffer contains the SMTP response line
-  FORCEFAIL   failed without reading a response (often "fail" in expansion)
+  CANCELLED   the client cancelled authentication (often "fail" in expansion)
+              the buffer may contain a message; if not, *buffer = 0
   ERROR       local problem (typically expansion error); message in buffer
 
 To communicate with the remote host the client should call