Graeme, thanks for pointing me to the solution of my problem. > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:08 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > Thanks for the clarification. The question I was getting at is that I > > have no procmail, sendmail or maildrop. Does that mean I have no MTA > > at all, or does exim handle the transport? > > Technically you probably don't have an MTA as such; Exim in your case is > acting as an MSA - but that's a technicality which is irrelevant :)
If I understand correctly, you are saying that technically I do not have an MTA application installed, but Exim can fulfill that function. So a question is, if one wants reliable mail communications and ease of installation, is relying on Exim sufficient, or are there good reasons on a home office system to install and use of of the common MTAs: procmail, sendmail or maildrop? > Your problem is that your desktop machine is setup to authenticate to > your ISP's MSA/MTA, your laptop isn't. ... > If I were you I'd look at the way you have both configs setup, and > transpose the outbound authentication section from desktop to laptop. > Then you'll be fine. It never occurred to me to set up authentication manually. But I had done it before and forgotten that it was necessary. When I entered a necessary line into /etc/exim3/passwd.client, I was able to send out a message without difficulty. Problem solved! Thanks. Haines Brown -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
