[Gllug] exim configuration - smarthost deliver fails

[David Pashley]

On May 03, 2003 at 14:38, Branden Faulls praised the llamas by saying:
> 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?

Yes it is. Is the smarthost under your control?
> 
> 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?
> 
Yes it is. 

 plain:
   driver = plaintext
   public_name = PLAIN
   client_send = "^username^password"

Assuming you want plain authentication. If oyu need something else, then
look at the examples at the bottom of /etc/exim/exim.conf

> 
> 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.
> 

-- 
David Pashley
david at parguild.co.uk
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