Re: How to configure exim4 to send mail by remote smarthost?
On 6/21/05, Craig Russell <craig@airdigitalnetwork.com> wrote:
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> Maurits van Rees wrote:
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> >On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:17:35AM +0800, Xiaoyang Gu wrote:
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> >>But when I sent non-local mail by exim4, I got such messages in the
> >>mainlog in /var/log/exim4:
> >>sorry, relay is not allowed.(#5.3.3) or Client was not authenticated
> >>
> >>Who can tell me how to configure exim4 to use the public server to send mails?
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> >Are there any other lines in this log file that might shed some light
> >on this?
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> >My guess is that your setup is correct and you are trying to send an
> >email through that public server, but the public server isn't allowing
> >it, because it doesn't know you and therefor doesn't trust you. It
> >might think you are a spammer. Usually you have to use the SMTP server
> >that belongs to the ISP whose network you are connected to. Then the
> >system knows you and trusts you. In some cases it may help to fetch
> >mail and send mail together, if your email program can do that. But if
> >you try to send a mail through the mail server that belongs to your
> >current internet connection it should just work. If you are not sure
> >which mail server you should use, then ask your ISP.
> >
> >HTH,
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> >
> Your isp is requiring authentication to send email to any domain that he
> is not hosting. I do the same thing on my mailserver for just the same
> reasons. Usually the smtp authorization is the same as the POP
> authorization. I'm not sure how to setup exim to authenticate (or if it
> is even possible) but I doubt that your ISP is going to let you open
> relay through his server because that opens him up to potential
> blacklisting if your mailserver is configured incorrectly.
I have did some thing and it seemed to work. For the public server
that i use just support PLAINTEXT auth, so I add an option
"AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = 1" in
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. After update-exim4.conf and restart
the exim4 server, I can user exim4 to send mail correctly.
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