Hello, I'm trying to set up an Exim MTA for use at our university and am obviously running into some issues. We have attempted to set this up before but given up after a while. No it becomes more urgent to establish a new mail server at the institute. I'm starting from what I suppose to be a more or less virgin exim/cyrus configuration since we have overwritten previous attempts on a recent system update.
What I'm currently trying to achieve is receiving mails with Exim and handing them over to cyrus to put them into the users inboxes. From the standard configuration I followed the steps mentioned at http://anfi.homeunix.org/exim/rtvcyrus.html to the best of my knowledge. Here is my configuration: /etc/cyrus.conf: ... SERVICES { ... lmtp cmd="lmtpd" listen="localhost:2003" prefork=0 maxchild=20 ... } ... /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/55_cyrus_ltcp: cyrus_ltcp: driver = smtp protocol = lmtp hosts = localhost port = 2003 allow_localhost /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/055_cyrus_vdom: cyrus_vdom: driver = accept domains = +cyrus_domains transport = cyrus_ltcp no_more I was not quite sure where, why and to what I had to set the cyrus_domains list. So I added it where I found other domain lists and set it to the domains that exim4 should be responsible for receiving (krist-test.uni-erlangen.de currently). Hope this is correct? /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-confi_listmacrosdefs: # List of domains considered local for exim. Domains not listed here # need to be deliverable remotely. domainlist local_domains = MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS # cyrus domains domainlist cyrus_domains = krist-test.uni-erlangen.de : krist.uni-erlangen.de I also skipped step 4 of the howto as it does not appear to be necessary for getting it working in the first place. Then I rebuild the config, restart exim4 and cyrus and attempt to send an e-mail to an (existing) inbox "user.klimczak" by writing to [email protected]. This is what I see in /var/log/exim4/mainlog then (I just blacked out my private sending addresse: 2010-10-26 14:01:10 1PAiDG-0004wb-TZ <= SENDERADDRESSE H=mx-rz-smart.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (mx-rz-1.rrze.uni-erlangen.de) [131.188.11.20] P=esmtp S=2349 id=4SENDERID 2010-10-26 14:01:10 1PAiDG-0004wb-TZ == [email protected] R=cyrus_vdom T=cyrus_ltcp defer (-45): SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<SENDERADDRESSE> SIZE=3414: host localhost.physik.uni-erlangen.de [127.0.0.1]: 430 Authentication required I do not quite understand -- judging from the howto -- where authorization should be required and how to achieve it. Any help would be appreciated. Maybe someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong or how to get more detailed error information from the system. Best regards, micha -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
