On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:12:49PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060112 20:37]: > > > > OTOH, if you are Joe Consumer getting your i'net connection from an > > ISP, then no, It Won't Work. He'll need to send all email thru his > > ISP's smtp server. > > Right. And this is easy enough to do. > > > As Gregory Seidman wrote, OP will have to configure exim4 to be > > a smarthost. Thus, when *any* MUA sends email (in sendmail mode), > > the MTA (exim4, in this case) will forward the mail to the ISP > > I think you mean he needs to configure exim4 to use a smarthost, namely, > the ISP's smtp server. > > Here are the steps I'd follow: > > First, 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config', to specify the appropriate > smarthost. (Information he has to have if mozilla mail is working.) > > Then, if that doesn't work, read the error logfiles in /var/log/exim4/, > to see if you're getting rejected by the ISP. If you are, you may need > to specify a username and password, which is done by manually editing > /etc/exim4/passwd.client according to the instructions in that file. > > -- > Lance Simmons > Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall > through an open manhole and die. > -- Mel Brooks
Something to note is this comment in exim4.conf.template: # Because AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN send the password in clear, we # only allow these mechanisms over encrypted connections by default. # You can set AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS to allow unencrypted # clear text password authentication on all connections. I just set AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS='true' in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template (I placed it just under the comment above), edited passwd.client, ran update-exim4.conf and restarted exim. This is the part that took me forever to figure out :\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
