Celejar, sorry, I thought I was asking just a generic question. Yes,
I'm running exim4 under debian squeeze, with SMTP authentication
required, and I do have an entry in my /etc/exim4/passwd.client file,
and my problem probably has to do with the syntax of the entries.
For years I've used a wild card for the mail server, entered my UID
for the mail server, which is my email address, and finally the
password for this account:
*:[email protected]:password
Now I have a second box with a different user account name (which I'll
call user1 here), which wants to be authenticated by this same mail
server. On this second box, exim4 creates the From: line by attaching
the user account name (user1) to the domain name:
[email protected]. The aim is to have this sender
address authenticated.
I try various things in passwd.client:
Outgoing mail accesses my mail server account with a UID which is my
email address ([email protected]) and a password
(password).
So, for user1 on the new machine to use this email account, I put in
the line:
*:[email protected]:password
This does not work because the From: line of the outgoing message is
[email protected], and so the server wants to see if
this user1 is legit. So I add this line:
*:[email protected]:password
But this is not the UID of the account name, and so does not work. In
desperation I also tried a wild card to cover all users:
*:*[email protected]:password
In any ase, when user1 attempts to send a message, it immediately
bounces with this error message:
[email protected]
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:
<[email protected]>:
host mail.historicalMaterialism.info [216,239...]:
553.5.7.1 <[email protected]>:
Sender address rejected: not onwed by user
[email protected]
I took this to mean that the error message cames from my ISP's mail
server even though it seems
instantaneous. "mail.historical.materialism" is the mail account on
that server. I assume that the account on the mail server with UID
[email protected] could not authenticate mail from
[email protected].
Haines
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