Re: Can't Get Exim4 Setup Right
It seems simple but it doesn't work. I have two mailboxes:
mail@tomgeorge.info and lists@tomgeorge.info and a Verizion DSL
connection. With Mozilla I can set the outgoing smtp connection as
outgoing .verizon.net and send messages back and forth between the two
mailboxes. Normally I download the debian-user messages to
lists@tomgeorge.info with Fetchmail and read them with Mutt nicely
strung together. I want to send messages or reply to messages from
Mutt. With dpkg-reconfigure exim4-configure I have:
Chosen not to split the configuration file
Chosen mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
Set my mail name to tomgeorge.info
Set IP address to listen to to 127.0.0.1
Left blank the field for which this machine should consider itself
the final destination, apart from the local host name (Dragon.Zoo) and
"localhost"
Left blank the field for the networks of local machines for which you
accept to relay mail
Entered outgoing.verizon.net as the smarthost
Chose not to hide the local name for outgoing mail
Did not limit the number of DNS-queries.
With this setup I can apparently send mail from Mutt (it says sent) but
if I try to test this by sending an email to mail@tomgeorge.info if
never arrives. There is no error message, no returned mail just a
confirmation from Mutt that the mail was sent but a Mozilla check for
mail@tomgeorge.info finds nothing.
Obviously I can send this message with Mozilla as originating from
lists@tomgeorge.info so I have a means to post messages to the
debian-user list. The problem is just that if I download and read the
messages from the debian-user list with fetchmail and mutt I have no way
to respond to them from mutt to preserve the threading by subject.
There must be sonething obvious that I have overlooked but I just don't
see it.
Tom George
Andrei wrote:
Try #tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog immediately after trying to send a
message from Mutt.
I did and found "host outgoing.verizon.net ... Authentication
Required." I edited /etc/exim4/passwd.client and added a line
outgoing.verizion.net:name:password using, of course, the account name
and password. This did not work. I also tried changing outgoing to
mail but this too did not work.
Note: This will probably appear as a re-posting as I can only post
messages from Mozilla until I solve this problem.
Tom
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