I am really beginning to hate squirrelmail. It doesn't thread, it doesn't break lines to 72 (or whatever) chars... But I am stuck with using it unless someone can tell me where to look for my misconfiguration. I have a server (actually a vm with Bytemark) on which I run courier-imap and exim4. Then I can log on from anywhere and read my mail using mutt on the laptop. When I want to reply, I have to open the same mailbox in squirrelmail and reply from there.
There are two issues AFAICS. I could send by sshing onto the server and running mutt there, or I can configure something so that the mutt on the laptop can send mail. Running on the server is less convenient obviously. 1 - mutt on the server. Mutt runs, but access over a slowish connection (GPRS) seems halting and in any case mail delivery fails. Mutt thinks it has gone, but each attempt to send has a set of messages in /var/log/exim4/mainlog similar to this: 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o *> [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smartho st H=smtp.bytemark.co.uk [80.68.81.166] after which it is never heard of again (i.e. never arrives). I don't have the first idea where to look for this problem. I found nothing useful with google. 2 - mutt on the laptop. If I want to send mail from mutt on the laptop, I can either use the ISP's smarthost (which means a different configuration depending where I am accessing the net) or send via the imap server which sends by the smarthost of Bytemark (which is presumably what squirrelmail does). But my mailserver of course rejects what it sees as relays (I guess this is debian default configuration, and I obviously do not want to allow relays). So I assume I need to set up some kind of authenticated remote logon. I have four times tried to follow the guide to configuring Exim4 and Courier IMAP under Debian at http://trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/index.html but am always snagged by the chapter on TLS which seems to set up okay, but near the end when the authentication goes "live" causes an error "*** No acceptable authentication types available" As there is no indication what might be the problem, and again google produced no useful help, I have had to unpick the work and abandon the exercise. So, can anyone who uderstands mail explain to me where to look for help on any of the above, or where else to find a guide to configuration that would allow me secure remote access to the imap using mutt? Sorry this is so long. TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]