On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:56:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > found anything that looks like SMTP Authentication in the exim4 > documentation on my machine. Is it a new feature? Or does exim4 refer
I'm no expert on this, but I did manage to get exim delivering through GMail which requires SMTP authentication. I started with: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config And choose to relay via a smarthost, and receive locally via fetchmail, and filled in other paramaters as appropriate. After that, I did some editing of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. I don't remember exactly what I did, but looking through the file, I see these lines that look relevant: remote_smtp_smarthost: debug_print = "T: remote_smtp_smarthost for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" driver = smtp # hosts_try_auth = ${if exists {CONFDIR/passwd.client}{DCsmarthost}{}} tls_tempfail_tryclear = false hosts_require_auth = smtp.gmail.com hosts_require_tls = smtp.gmail.com port = 587 I think I commented out the line because GMail requires authentication, and added hosts_require_auth. This is only a template used to generate the actual configuration file if you're using Debian's way of managing the exim configuration, so after that you have to run: # update-exim4.conf I think. Also, you have to put the authentication information in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. Here are my GMail lines: smtp.gmail.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:password gmail-smtp.l.google.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:password This took a little digging, because I connected to smtp.gmail.com, and I don't know exactly what exim did, but I had to run it with some diagnostics to find out that my authentication was failing because after using smtp.gmail.com for the address, it thought it was connected to gmail-smtp.l.google.com. I don't know if it came from a reverse DNS lookup or what. If you get some pretty mysterious failure, you might have something like that going on. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]