Mutt & Exim4 Setup Problem Solved
On the 9th Sridar M. A. wrote (in a message I printed out but erased):
"The passwd_client seems to be Debian specific but it did not work. I
edited /etc/exim4/conf.d/30_exim4-config_examples to include the login
id and password. Just including below the relevant section:
plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
client_send = ^user@mylog.org^secret
#.ifndef . . .
.
.
.
#.endif"
I tried this at the time without success not realizing that his choice
of file to edit was appropriate when using a split configuration. After
floudering around wildly and asking a lot of dumb questions it finally
dawned on me that I was not using a split configuration. Accordingly I
went to /etc/exim4, ran grep -n plain: exim4.conf.template, used vi to
edit at the line number adding a line client_send =
^our_user_name@verizon.net^our_password and commenting out all the lines
of the if statement, and then ran update-exim4.conf. After this mail
from Mutt was sent with no problem.
Of course, this hack does not solve the problem with the Debian script.
I am working at learning bash scripting and may study that if statement
as part of my education but not yet. In the meantime sending mail from
Mutt works but I have become increasingly comfortable in working from
Mozilla.
Tom George
As my old physics professor said of experimental physicists: "Dumb but
plodders"
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