On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:42:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 03 Jul 2018 at 08:52:22 (-0700), Mike McClain wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 03:17:27PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > <snip> > > Should anyone reading this know hjow to get exim4 to connect to > > outbound.att.net I'd love to hear about it. > > Curt got the wiki, and my googling landed on > https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/dsl-high-speed/KM1010523 > and > https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/email-support/KM1240308 > It looks as though these are more up to date than the wiki. > > In the first, I assume that the table rows are labelled wrongly, > but it seems to show SMTP on smtp.mail.att.net ports 465 or 587 > as well as the hostname you gave. I would also try port 587 on > both hostnames: it won't be the first to give the wrong one. > > The second shows how to get a suitable password for your userID. > (I would use this approach merely because I don't know anything > about oath.) > > Anyway, what doesn't work for you and what response do you get > from exim?
What doesn't work? Can't send mail. Long before Verizon and Oath were involved with Yahoo. When I switched from dialup AT&T had me using port 465 and at that time I was getting some kind of authorization error but couldn't find out what. # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1' dc_smarthost='outbound.att.net::465' Here's an excerpt from current exim's log: 2018-07-03 19:51:29 1faXd0-0008Gb-JB Remote host smtp.att.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com [67.195.228.97] closed connection in response to initial connection 2018-07-03 19:51:59 1faXd0-0008Gb-JB == [email protected] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-18): Remote host smtp.att.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com [98.136.96.82] closed connection in response to initial connection Switching update-exim4.conf.conf to read: dc_smarthost='outbound.att.net::587' exim's log now shows: 2018-07-03 20:15:24 1faYFl-00006U-4d ** [email protected] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=2464: host smtp.att.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com [67.195.228.97]: 550 Request failed; Mailbox unavailable This last message shows a further complication. I have a primary email account with ATT as well as several aliases,. I also have a Yahoo account, likewise gmail and am likely to use any of them as the source (From:, ReplyTo: headers) in outgoing mail depending on where it's going. I only have one, the primary, in /etc/exim4/passwd.client for ATT. My dialup doesn't care what I call myself when I send email but perhaps ATT/Yahoo does. No I haven't tried to get that special password. What I've got works, I guess I'll leave it rather than jump through hoops for Verizon. Thanks for the references. Mike -- Where man is there will be trouble to the end of time, if not of one sort, then of another." - Louis L'Amour
