Hi. For the last few days I've been trying to get a box inside our firewall to use our XMail server (outside the firewall) as a gateway for sending automated messages from our extranet. The box inside has Debian sarge & exim 3.36-11 installed, & exim is set to use the XMail machine as an outgoing mail gateway. The XMail machine is Debian Woody with XMail 1.18, upgraded from 1.17.
I set up an ID & pass in SMTPAUTH.TAB (I believe that's the correct file to use), and also tested using two mail accounts on the XMail machine. After several failed tests I used telnet to connect & have had inconsistent results, sometimes getting an ok, sometimes getting a "relay denied". And I've had some connection attempts ok one day and the next day I get a "relay denied" using exactly the same commands, ID & pass. The accounts I have used are ok for relaying with authentication, & in the past I have not had these errors. Also strange is that I can send mail outside through my MUA using the same auth ID & pass with no problems. Could someone get back to me re. the transcript of the telnet session (below) & let me know if I've got the sequence/commands right or wrong, and any other thoughts are appreciated. Thanks in advance ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] adrianh]$ telnet merlin 25 Trying 202.42.186.82... Connected to merlin (202.42.186.82). Escape character is '^]'. 220 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [XMail 1.17 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server] service ready; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:28:06 +0800 ehlo maverick.sing.auston.com 250-sing.auston.com 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-8BITMIME 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 250 SIZE 10485760 auth login [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************ (password removed) 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 helo maverick.sing.auston.com 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 OK rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550 Relay denied ----- Adrian Hicks -- MIS & Facilities Manager Auston Int'l Group Ltd, Singapore 45 Middle Rd, #01-00 Auston Unicentre Tel: (65) 6339 4800 ext. 229 Fax: (65) 6339 7600 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
