Hi ng!

Now I have a problem with exim4 and outgoing mail that drives me a little
bit crazy since three days (searching the web and the man-pages). Though I
have uncommented the client-section
in /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples (plain for my isp
alice-dsl.net) and then have run update-exim4.conf and restarted exim (and
I am in passw.client of course), I can't send emails to my yahoo-adress for
example, though local mail delivery works perfect and receiving messages
from local and from web via fetchmail too!

When I run exim4 -v -odf jenslindermann@yahoo.de
My cute email
.

I get this:

LOG: MAIN
<= root@COMPUTER U=root P=local S=278
delivering 1JnYiY-0001Hu-R5
R: smarthost for jenslindermann@yahoo.de
T: remote_smtp_smarthost for jenslindermann@yahoo.de
Connecting to out.alice-dsl.net...

Jens-Olaf Lindermann wrote:

Robert Harris wrote:

Hi Robert,

alas it will not... Local deliver works fine: As I send myself an email at
my local adress, I will see it in mutt. But when I try to send e-mails to,
say, jenslindermann@yahoo.de (to the www), there always comes the
message "SMTP 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay..." This is strange, because with
kmail or icedove smtp it works.

confused
Jens

I know it is OT here, but in the german mailserver-group nobody answers. And
beside - exim is not a mailserver but a mailclient in my case. ;-)

Jens-Olaf Lindermann wrote:

John F. Morse wrote:

Hi John,

I have reconfigured it.
1. split in multiple files
2. SMTP and smarthost (fetchmail),
3. E-Mail-Name of my system: Name of my machine
4. IP 127.0.0.1
5. further domains: name of my machine
6. relay: empty
7. smtp.mailserver.org:25
8. Hide local E-Mail-Name: Yes
9. visible name: mailserver.org
10.minimize DNS: Yes
11.mbox /var/mail/

And I have also configured the client-section of my template-file in confd/.

must there stand something special for me 'user'?

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:40:23 +0200, Jens-Olaf Lindermann wrote:

that's the wrong place, if I understand you correctly.

from the top of this file:

# The examples below are for server side authentication, when the
# local exim is SMTP server and clients authenticate to the local
# exim.

in your case you don't want to authenticate against your local exim
but you want your exim (as a client) to authenticate against your
smarthost (i.e. alice).

passwd.client is one of the two needed places.

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:11:56 +0200, Jens-Olaf Lindermann wrote:

TTBOMK /etc/aliases is for _incoming_ mail, which doesn't seem to be
your problem.
/etc/email-addresses can be used to "translate" local usernames to
mailadresses for outgoing mail.

gregor

gregor herrmann wrote:

Hi Gregor,

great, much help here for me newbie - thanks! I am so confused that
information goes probably wrong. I have uncommented the client-side
authentication 'plain' and 'login' in exim4.conf.template and run update.

smtp.alice-dsl.net is just an alias for out.alice-dsl.de is, which I have
found out running the 'host' command. But how can I get authentication
work? (I swear I write a tutorial for alice!)

This line is there and identical with passwd.client too.

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:01:22 +0200, Jens-Olaf Lindermann wrote:

ok.

so you now have:
out.alice-dsl.de:alice-user:alice-password
in passwd.client and
dc_smarthost='out.alice-dsl.de'
in update-exim4.conf.conf and it's still not working?

when you run update-exim4.conf it should expand the dc_smarthost
variable from update-exim4.conf.conf; the resulting file is
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated; you can take look there (search
for DCsmarthost).

gregor herrmann wrote: