On Sunday 10 June 2007 21:30, you wrote: > I'm not sure if the following problem is an exim4 configuration > issue, and I'm hoping for some pointers on where to look. > > I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things > work fine. When I tried to send mail using: > > $ mail somebody@somewhere.com < file > > The mail was returned to me with: > SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<me@myhost.localnet> > SIZE=2522: > host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]: > 530 5.5.1 Authentication Required d23sm9741312nfh > > I was a bit surprised that mailx was trying to contact google, > so I looked through /etc/exim4 and didn't find any references > at all to google. I then added my gmail account to > /etc/exim4/email-addresses and sent an email > using mailx to my google account. After about 12 hours, > that mail has disappeared. (ie, I haven't gotten a Mail delivery > failure, and I haven't received the email.) > > What am I missing? Bottom line: I want > the ability to send email by redirecting a file into > /usr/bin/mail. The easiest solution that allows me > to do that is welcome. Have you tried grepping the /etc/exim dir's for "google". The easiest way to setup exim in debian is to "run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and select the right option for you. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: anton@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://tastycake.net/~anton/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF
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