Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013, Gregory Nowak wrote:
By mistake I sent my reply directly to the responder (sorry Greg) and
not to the list. Here is a copy:
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 01:15:26PM +0000, Chris Davies wrote:
> > IP address or host name of the outgoing smarthost
> > => "mail.messagingengine.com::NNN".
>
> Should be a single colon, not double. For example,
mail.example.net:587
No, this is incorrect. When you run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config,
it
says:
[snip]
I will restore the double colon.
[I put it there based on the docs, but did not remember the reference;
it was late at night, so I did not question the responder. I simply
thought I missed something... My bad.]
I can also confirm this is correct, since I am using two colons here
to send to a smarthost on 587.
>
> If you're using 486 (SMTP/SSL) you may need to tweak the TLS
entries in
> the configuration file.
Where are you getting tcp 486 as SMTP/SSL from? On my system,
/etc/services lists:
"ssmtp 465/tcp smtps # SMTP over SSL"
There is no mention of 486 either tcp or udp in my
/etc/services. Besides that, 465 is deprecated. The port that should
be used for smarthosts these days is tcp 587, and no ISP has a right
to block that. In fact:
I was using 465 because that's how my email client (alpine) uses the
provider's SMTP. It was configured some years ago, and I was not
aware that a change is required.
It is strange to me, though, that alpine would be able to use port
465, while exim4 would not?
"$ telnet mail.messagingengine.com 587
Trying 66.111.4.52...
Connected to mail.messagingengine.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.messagingengine.com ESMTP ready
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host."
So, the OP should have mail.messagingengine.com::587 in the exim4
config. In /etc/exim4/passwd.client, the OP should have something
like:
mail.messagingengine.com:username:clear_text_password
Greg
Will try that and report back to the list.
Many thanks,
Itay
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