tlyons
01-23-2005, 02:29 PM
GOAL: I need minimal function with exim -- just enough to be able for my crontab to be able to send updates of my system config to the linux counter, and for me to send quick emails directly from CLI. No receive capability is desired, as I use Kmail and my website host's mail server.
I've spent the better part of the day trying to get this working, using every variation I can think of. Best outcome so far has been being able to send emails through my domain host's server and back to addresses in my domain (i.e. sending an email from me to me, or from me to joe-user @ trl.ca etc.).
Sending to outside domains hasn't worked yet, desite much subsequent farting around. Either the mail bounces back to me from inside the system (mail @ CLI) or to my email client with an error message (550: not local host hotmail.com, not a gateway). The mail server requires login authentication, but I thought I'd already covered that in de-commenting the server authentication (login) piece of the main template file, and entering the account's login info in the passwd.client file.
I've surfed extensively trying to find some docs, or others with the same problem, and most of the info is out of date (re: Exim 3.x). The config is now through dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.
e.g. this page was nice, but is outdated (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html#ABITMOREADVANCED).
I can post my exim4.conf.template (I went with the single file, rather than the multiples) if necessary. Any ideas?
- T.
I've spent the better part of the day trying to get this working, using every variation I can think of. Best outcome so far has been being able to send emails through my domain host's server and back to addresses in my domain (i.e. sending an email from me to me, or from me to joe-user @ trl.ca etc.).
Sending to outside domains hasn't worked yet, desite much subsequent farting around. Either the mail bounces back to me from inside the system (mail @ CLI) or to my email client with an error message (550: not local host hotmail.com, not a gateway). The mail server requires login authentication, but I thought I'd already covered that in de-commenting the server authentication (login) piece of the main template file, and entering the account's login info in the passwd.client file.
I've surfed extensively trying to find some docs, or others with the same problem, and most of the info is out of date (re: Exim 3.x). The config is now through dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.
e.g. this page was nice, but is outdated (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html#ABITMOREADVANCED).
I can post my exim4.conf.template (I went with the single file, rather than the multiples) if necessary. Any ideas?
- T.