On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> Doug, thanks for your comments.
>
> To access my ISP's new SSL smtp server, I was given a new server name:
> smtp.hartford-hwp.com. But I find out this is only a shortcut to the
> actual server, which I'm told is mymail.myregisteredsite.com. I
> dutifully changed to that address, but when I try to send messages, I
> get:
>
> host mymail.myregisteredsite.com [209.237.134.152]:
> 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
>
> Tech support insists this error message means I'm not authenticating
> with the server, but that's not what it sounds like.
>
> To authenticate with the SMTP server, there seem to be four issues:
>
> 1. In /etc/exim4/passwd.client I inserted this line (where "<PW>" is
> my plain test password):
>
> mymail.myregisteredsite.com:hartford-hwp.com:<PW>
Yeah, redirects sort of mess up exim. That's why I would use:
*:[username]:[PW]
Is your login user-name really hartford-hwp.com?
>
> 2. In exim4 configuration, I have to specify the smtp server. In
> /etc/exim4/update.exim.conf.conf I have the line:
>
> dc_smarthost='mymail.myregisteredsite.com'
>
I would stick to the name they gave you. Otherwise, exim will try to
contact that box directly and that box is likely configured to only
acccept stuff from smtp.hardford-hwp.com
> 3. I have not specified the authentication method. After speaking with
> my tech support supervisor's supervisor, all I could get was that
> the authentication method is "basic", "ordinary". Only later one
> person suggested that "basic" is really plain
> authentication. Assuming this is correct, I did not make any
> changes to the /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template file, which
> apparently defaults to the plain text authentication method. I have
> no trouble accessing the POP server.
Is your pop-server username hartford-hwp.com as well?
>
> 4. I was told to open the port 587 for SMTP instead of 25 (no port
> change was needed to access the POP server). So in /etc/inetd.conf
> I tried both of these lines without success, and also commented the
> line (reverted to port 25):
>
> ssmtp 587/tcp smtps # SMTP over SSL
> smtp 587/tcp smtps # SMTP over SSL
>
> Which of these two lines has the right syntax?
>
inetd.conf is for incoming ports. Opening a port in the sense they mean
is opening a port in your own firewall to let exim call out on port 587.
The standard port per /etc/services would be 465.
So, do you have a firewall?
> I know that whenever I make changes to exim configuration or to the
> inetd.conf file, I must restart. Will both of these commands do it
> (I'm using debian Etch)? That is, does reconfiguring Exim also restart
> inetd, and does restarting inetd also rescan Exim4 configuration?
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
> # /usr/sbin/initd restart
>
There is no such file as /usr/sbin/initd to restart.
However, there is /etc/init.d/exim4 restart.
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