[Gllug] exim configuration - smarthost deliver fails

[David Pashley]

On May 02, 2003 at 14:59, Xander D harkness praised the llamas by saying:
> 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
> 
This assumes he has access to the smarthost. This would not help on his
local machine.

-- 
David Pashley
david at parguild.co.uk
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