On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:11:21PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I'm using pine on debian and I gave pine my verizon user name so pine > would make a connection with authentication with verizon to send the > e-mail. It's verizon.net that's prompting for the password. I don't use pine... does pine have its own smtp btis and deliver the mail itself or does it use the local MTA? by what mechanism is verizon.net prompting you for the password? or is it pine that is prompting? THe problem I'm seeing is that if pine uses the local MTA (exim here) then there would be no mechanism for verizon to ask for a password such that the request would get passed all the way back to the user. If exi mwas doing the mailing, you'd have to look in the logs to see that authentication failed and eventually the mail would get bounced back to you. So it sounds like pine is doing the smtp transaction directly. In which case, to answer your original question, no exim doesn't need reconfiguring, because its not involved in the transaction. It sounds to me like pine is misconfigured, if not broken, as the "no from command was sent" indicates that its not speaking proper smtp to the remote server. hth A > etch unstable for debian. I can connect to the verizon news server and at > least read usenet messages but haven't tried posting anything since pine > wasn't working yet. > > > > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:49:46AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >>When I try sending any email out on my verizon.net account with debian I > >>get asked for the password for verizon.net and then get told the message > >>wasn't sent because no mail from command was sent. Is exim4 needing some > >>configuration repairs for this to work? > > > >If you're being asked for a verizon.net password, then exim isn't > >sending the mail. Exim doesn't prompt you for passwords. > > > >What mailer are you using? > >What version of debian? > > > > > >A > > >
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