exim4+mail

[ramboza]

I'm trying to setup exim4 to be able to send emails to remote addresses via mail command.

I've configured exim4 by dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
Used http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html as a guide.

So i've selected Internet site using smarthost

And entered smtp.mail.ru as a smarthost.

No i've followed this guide:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/280

to setup authentication in smtp.

When i try to :

echo test | mail -s test user@domain.com

i see this in /var/log/exim4/mainlog :

2008-11-18 21:23:15 1L2VEJ-0000iZ-NR ** user@domai.com R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined DATA: host smtp.inbox.ru [194.67.23.113]: 503 Administrative prohibition -- authorization required. Users in your domain are not allowed to send email without authorization.


So looks like the authorization module is not working at all, i think the log would have given "invalid user/pass" or smth...

Any ideas?

[ramboza]

Bah, solved...

The conf i've made is for exim SERVER side smtp auth :)
For client side you should edit /etc/exim4/passwd.client file.
And add AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS=1 to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros

So it works :)

[eotakos]

the macro command you gave equal to 1 is for not encrypted connections. I've read somewhere in the exim-doc that this way the passwords are send as plain text.

if you are not interested in using the particular smpt server you are using, you could create a gmail account, and use the smtp.gmail.com with the password of the account. This way you have secure connections (uses TLS).