Hello all, I have a situation that I'm having a hard time resolving.
I have a local Debian box whose only job in life is to perform backups daily/weekly/monthly, generate an email of either success or failure, and send that email to my gmail.com account. For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to gmail mail servers. My ISP is Verizon. So, I decided to try using Verizon as an SMTP host (outgoing.verizon.net ). Currently, it appears to be working (with the help of this procedure: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2006-July/000714.html ), but I'd really like to understand why it works. Or rather, I'd like to understand what the proper way to get local email sent to gmail. And so, this post here on debian.user. So my question is this, given the following: email origination: my local machine (running Debian and exim4) email destination: gmail.com ISP: verizon.net What is the correct way to set things up so they are both secure and reliable? Thanks much.
