CaT wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able
to respond to postings from Mutt but without success.
It should just work[tm]. What error messages are you getting from mutt?
Are there any entries in your main, reject and panic logfiles that are
pertinent to your attempt to send out a msg (either because they happen
at around thesame time or for other reasons).
It's hard to help debug without useful info. :)
Just for the record, I posted the problem to the debian-user list
earlier and got several suggestions each of which I tried without
success. I read all the README's in /usr/share/doc/exim4, studied all
the FAQ's in exim4-doc-html (beautifully organized by key word),
subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and posted the
problem there and spent a morning further experimenting with setup files
and with the exim4 command options.
I came away from this with an enormous repect for power and resources of
exim4 but did not solve my problem. It was then I realized I was
spending time on a problem that could be avoided by using Mozilla.
Should anyone be interested in some detail here is my pkg-exim4-users
posting with a response from Marc and one addition:
My system is Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel. We have a Verizon DSL
connection. I can send and receive email with Mozilla and receive mail
with fetchmail but I have not been able to setup exim4 to send mail from
mutt.
With Mozilla the setup is:
Account Name: lists
Your Name: Thomas H. George
email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POP mail server
server name: mail.tomgeorge.info port 110
user name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Outgoing Server (SMTP) Settings
server name: outgoing.verzison.net port 25
user name: dryden
With exim4 the setup using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config is
Split configuration into small files?: No
mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
System mail name: tomgeorge.info
IP address to listen to: 127.0.0.1
Other destinations for which mail is accepted: Left Blank
Machines to relay for: Left Blank
Machine handling outgoing mail for this host (smarthost):
outgoing.verizion.net
Hide local name in outgoing mail: No
Keep number of DNS-queries minimal: No
In addition I have edited the file /etc/exim4/passwd.client adding a line
mail.verizion.net:dryden:OurPassword
Somewhere I have gone wrong in the setup but, having tried various
combinations without success, I need help. I am attaching the the result
of tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog in hopes this makes my mistake obvious
and someone can put me straight.
Tom George
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2006-01-11 12:20:10 1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=tom
P=local S=436 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1474: host outgoing.verizon.net
[206.46.232.12]: 550 5.7.1 Authentication Required
2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdr-0004pD-9G <= <> R=1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa
U=Debian-exim P=local S=1383
2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa Completed
2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdr-0004pD-9G ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL
FROM:<> SIZE=2444: host outgoing.verizon.net [206.46.232.12]: 550 5.7.1
Authentication Required
2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdr-0004pD-9G Frozen (delivery error message)
Marc responded, "Does outgoing.verizon.net advertise STARTTLS? If not,
you need to authorize your exim to do authentication over an unencryped
connection.
If I understand the attached quote from
/usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz exim should handle this
automatically (and the Mozilla setup referred to above is set to use TLS
if available). Is there some other setting I should change? - Tom George
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Using TLS ********************************
********************************************
exim4 as TLS/SSL client
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Both exim4-daemon-heavy and exim4-daemon-light support TLS/SSL using the
GnuTLS library and exim will use TLS *automatically* as client if the
server exim connects to offers it. You can stop reading now if you are
not setting up a mailserver which needs to offer TLS for incoming
connections.
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