I installed exim4 on to debian etch. I receive mail, but can't send it. For example, I used wanderlust to send this message:
From: Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test 24 apr 11:18 User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (Shijjō APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.4 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Reply-To: H. Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bcc: brownh Error: SMTP reponse error: 550, "You must be authenticated to use this server". I find nothing in /var/log/exim3/mainlog. I have either misconfigured exim4 to have it relay messages or to authenticate itself to sent mail to my ISP's mail server. Because I have a stand-alone workstation with internet access to my ISP's smart host mail server, I chose "Internet site; mail is send and received driectly using SMTP" For my mailname, I used my FQDN (teufel.hartford-hwp.com). I chose to have SMTP listed to 127.0.0.1. However I see that my Etch /etc/hosts has this, and I'm not sure these are compatible:. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel For address of smart host I put: smtp.registeredsite.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:<PW> This appears in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. Should I have left this question blank and simply put the authentication info into passwd.client? Name to use (/etc/mailname). My FQDN is teufel.hartford-hwp.com, but for mail, I want to be seen as simply hartford-hwp.com, and so I enter it as name to be used. However, if my ISP's mail server is a smarthost doing a reverse lookup, it may do it on my FQDN. How do I know I'm entering the right mailname? I test by having root send a message to user on my machine: # echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" brownh In ~/Maildir/new: Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:44:48 -0400 Received: from root by teufel.hartford-hwp.com with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) id 1HgNCC-0001qj-Qn for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:44:48 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test message Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:44:48 -0400 my test In /var/log/exim4/mainlog: 2007-04-24 11:44:48 1HgNCC-0001qj-Qn <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=410 2007-04-24 11:44:48 1HgNCC-0001qj-Qn => brownh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=local_user T=maildir_home 2007-04-24 11:44:48 1HgNCC-0001qj-Qn Completed All this looks OK, I believe. So it looks like my ISP's mail server is not authenticating my outgoing messages. Haines Brown -- Haines Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Haines Brown's Profile: http://www.exim-users.org/forums/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=269 View this thread: http://www.exim-users.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=54837 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
