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. thanks
