Re: How to use Exim with GMX and other quests

[Felix Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>]

Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch> writes:

> Hi all
> 
> I have some Exim questions. I comming from a SuSE system wich uses 
> Sendmail so i have very little knoledge about exim. First of all: I use 
> Kmail to get my mail via POP3. I use a relay, mail.gmx.ch, for outgoing 
> mail so i chose option 3 in eximconfig. If i try to send a local email 
> (via Kmail) i.e to me@myhost.mydomain.ch then exim doesn't send anything. 
> If i type sendmail -bp i get the mail in the queue... How can i say exim 
> to deliver the mail.?
> Secnd problem. GMX uses the today non-standard to login via SMTP 
> (RFC-2554) as lots of cliants can do that. Is it possible to give exim a 
> username and a password to login in the smarthost?
> 
> General question: Is better to use sendmail than exim i thought to use 
> exim because the debian developpers would have thought something before 
> they decided to use it apart of sendmail...
> Thanks a lot.

I don't have a clue what you are referring to when you say relaying,
but your setup sounds closer to eximconfig's (2)-option: accept local mail
(fetchmail from your pop3-host) and send mail via smart-host (mail.gmx.ch).
I configured it like this, and now exim sends my mail in an ip-up script.

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Felix Natter