On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:22:49PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to setup exim4 in a situation that has got to be pretty > common. (Other than perhaps the choice of smtp server) > > In general it is: > > single user home machine running debian > > send mail to remote addresses by `smart host' > > Retrieve mail by fetchmail, or in some accounts just > use Imap and don't fetch the messages. > > But in all cases I must use a smarthost. In this case it is the smtp > server `mail.messagingengine.com'. I have successfully setup > sendmail on a debian machine in the past with this same smart host. > It necessitated using an `authinfo' file with a certain syntax. > > So my SmartHost is an authenticating Smart host... it also seemed > to require me to masquerade as another mail provider. > > I used `newsguy.com' since I have accounts with them. Mail was made > to appear as if it had originated at newsguy.com > > Some of those same things, no doubt, will be required, and I've tried > several different configs. > > What I hoped is that someone here would be in a similar situation and > might be able to offer some input to get this going. > > Call me lazy, but I really really do NOT want to pound thru piles and > piles of exim documentation... . I'm willing to do some reading > but not interested in becoming an exim adept... I doubt I would make > the cut... with 10-15 yrs training. According to https://www.fastmail.fm/help/technical/servernamesandports.html what you require is mail.messagingengine.com port 465 (old-style SSL) or port 587 (with STARTTLS). You shouldn't need to pretend to be anyone else to send your email. For exim, http://www.manu-j.com/blog/wordpress-exim4-ubuntu-gmail-smtp/75/ suggests to set the smarthost to "mail.messagingengine.com::587" (when using debconf) and to add a new routing driver. Probably easiest to just read that page for the information you require, replacing smtp.gmail.com with mail.messagingengine.com as appropriate.
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