Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error
On Sun, 24 May 2009 10:58:05 +0300
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat,23.May.09, 22:32:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>
> > Probably there is some difference between your IceDove setup (that you
> > mention in a later message) and your exim4 setup. Perhaps IceDove is always
> > doing SMTP-auth, and exim4 only tries SMTP-auth if it believes it is
> > required and the SMTP server you are connecting to does not make this clear.
> > But, that's very much a guess -- turning up logging, or manually tracing the
> > SMTP session to get more information is probably the next step.
>
> One difference that might matter is that 'mail' will use
> username@hostname as Envelope-From. I don't know exim, but postfix will
> not rewrite this unless specifically told to (which is needed for all my
> relayhosts).
Good point. On the other hand, while I'm no mail expert, IIRC, the
relay hosts that I've used will throw a 5xx SMTP error when they don't
like the envelope-from.
Celejar
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