[Gllug] exim configuration - smarthost deliver fails

[Xander D harkness]

Branden Faulls wrote:

> Whenever I try to send an eMail from my debian box, via exim and 
> through my smarthost, I get a failure email with a 553 (not in list of 
> rcpthosts) error message.
>
> Is my smarthost considering messages sent to other domains to be an 
> attempt to relay?
>
> To send email with the same host with my MUA, I have to authenticate, 
> so  is it possible to set up exim to do the same?

It is possible to set up exim to authenticate hosts using a password, or 
a key; however the easiest answer ot your difficulty is probably to set 
up a hostlist for relay_from_hosts:

hostlist   relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.0.0/8 : etc.

This is using exim 4.1X

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.10/doc/html/spec_37.html#IX1731

Kind regards
Xander

>
>
> I'm sure there is a simple solution, but I'm totally new to exim.
> Exim works smoothly locally and whenever invoked through PHP, so I'm 
> otherwise happy with the setup.
>
> Thanks
>
> Branden
>
>
>
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