David Wright writes: > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames > send mail from this system.
Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's try again. > Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there? wb5agz.swbell.net That should never show up on the remote end because this is the host name that is locally defined and not on any DNS A record. The user ID for me on the local system is martin. The user ID I registered on the smarthost was martin.m since martin without anything else already belongs to another customer. If I hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see marti...@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve pop3 mail and the retrieval does work. > Do you mean the From: line in your email header? What are you typing > in (or what is your mail client putting there) and where are you > observing the changed version? The mainlog file displays the error that smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting 2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** mar...@shellworld.net R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<mar...@suddenlink.net> SIZE=1586: host smtp.suddenlink.net [208.180.40.68]: 553 Authentication is required to send mail as <mar...@suddenlink.net> I totally agree. That should have been marti...@suddenlink.net. That is where the wheels came off. The smarthost sees mar...@suddenlink.net and what it should see in the From: line is marti...@suddenlink.net Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite' dc_other_hostnames='' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1' dc_readhost='suddenlink.net' dc_relay_domains='' dc_minimaldns='false' dc_relay_nets='' dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' CFILEMODE='644' dc_use_split_config='true' dc_hide_mailname='true' dc_mailname_in_oh='true' dc_localdelivery='mail_spool' Here are all the important parts of passwd.client except the password. smtp.suddenlink.net:marti...@smtp.suddenlink.net:SECRET I hope this is a bit more clear. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150711124349.2730f22...@server1.shellworld.net