On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:33:57PM +0900 or thereabouts, Brent Russell Langille wrote: > i have fetchmail set up to contact my isp and grab my emails and dump > them to exim which then delivers them to a Maildir style directory. that > works great. > > the problem is sending mail out through exim4 to my isp. my isp only > supports LOGIN auth. i have exim4 setup with the "smarthost" option. i > used the address of the smtp server of my isp as the smarthost. i edited > smtp_remote in the conf.d directory and i put my information in the > passwd.clients file. i also have my user name aliased to my isp email > address in the file /etc/email-addresses > > the problem is i keep getting a "550 5.1.8 you are not allowed to send > mail". i know that i am because i can send mail through evolution > directly to the isp, but i want all my mail to go through exim4. > > i believe that the problem is exim4 is not sending the authentication > information. how can i test this? can anyone see a set that i have > missed? any help would be appreciated.
It's been sometime since I set up my Exim3 for SMTP AUTH -- I believe you should find out first what type of SMTP_AUTH your ISP supports. Usually one telnets to their e-mail server, to see what their login stanza says. In my case it was SMTP_AUTH PLAIN. This and the I don't know if this helps much, I've only done this with Exim3. But Exim4 should use similar syntax. So in my 'exim.conf', I have the following; Under Authentication Configuration Section login: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN client_send = ": login : password" ## appropriate p/login Under Routers Configuration Section smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* ssmtp.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com bydns_a" /* I remember the config wouldn't work, without 'ssmtp' appended, at least with my ISP) */ Cheers. -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunday Apr 18 2004 10:41:01 AM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ratos não vomitam.
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