Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:

> >         *:hartford-hwp.com:<PW>
> > 
> > But can a wildcard replace the name of the server like this?
> 
> Yes.  No matter what host asks exim for auth, it will give this username
> and password.  

Thanks for the explanation. I'll try it.

> > > Is your pop-server username hartford-hwp.com as well?
> > 
> > Pop sercver is pop.hartford-hwp.com; smtp server is smtp.hartford-hwp.com
> 
> They look like server names not user names for a login session.

You are right. I misread your question. UID for both POP and SMTP is:
brownh@hartford-hwp.com. 

> > This may be my problem: I have a hardware firewall. However, if I'm
> > using port 25 for smtp, wouldn't my firewall let it through? Is the
> > fact that it's now SSL require a change in my hardware firewall?
> > 
> 
> YES.  Absolutley.  You've told exim to contact smtp on port 587 but if
> your firewall is blocking connections on port 587 then nothing will get
> through.

I reverted to port 25. In my firewall, I set up a custom service in it
for ssmtp to use port 587. This may solve my problem.

> according to /etc/services that's ssmtp.  But who cares?  You tell the
> firewall what port to open.  Your ISP told you what port to use so you
> tell the firewall and you tell exim.

Tell exim4 the port to use? Where would that be?

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       Haines Brown, KB1GRM