Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:30:59PM +0100, William Pursell wrote:
I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things
work fine. When I tried to send mail using:
$ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file
The mail was returned to me with:
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SIZE=2522:
host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]:
530 5.5.1 Authentication Required d23sm9741312nfh
I was a bit surprised that mailx was trying to contact google,
so I looked through /etc/exim4 and didn't find any references
at all to google. I then added my gmail account to
/etc/exim4/email-addresses and sent an email
using mailx to my google account. After about 12 hours,
that mail has disappeared. (ie, I haven't gotten a Mail delivery
failure, and I haven't received the email.)
I don't use gmail but my dial-up ISP requires SMTP auth over an
unencrypted connection.
You need your email address in /etc/email-addresses so that exim will
rewrite your from line correctly.
You need a correct line in /etc/exim4/passwd.client
I also needed to add a file to /etc/exim4/conf.d/main called
000_localmacros
which contains the line:
AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = TRUE
Without which, exim will not send a password since the connection is not
encrypted; the password goes out in the clear.
Good luck.
Thanks. I realized that by having my google account in
/etc/email-addresses, any mail delivery failures will
go to gmail instead of /var/mail, so I've done the following:
I followed Anoton's suggestion to run dpkg-reconfigure,
added a line to /etc/exim4/passwd.client, and then sent
an email that has gone away. (I expect to get a
mail delivery failure soon in /var/mail.) I then
ran strace on "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < foo" (the complete wrong
approach to system administration, but
I figure it's best to use the tools you know...:), but
this was unenlightening.
I'm still confused as to why gmail is in the picture at
all when I run mailx. I did set smtp.gmail as my smtp
smarthost when I ran dpkg-reconfigure, but the only
reference to gmail in /etc/exim4 is in
update-exim4.conf.conf (via grep -iRe 'gmail\|google' *)
Surely the only affect that
file has is on execution of dpkg-reconfigure, no?
Which exim4 config file is telling it to contact google
for smtp?
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