On 2009-05-12 Raoul Bönisch <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > Obviously smtp.alice-dsl.net is an alias dns name while > out.alice-dsl.net is its canonical name.
> I put in the canonical smtp server name in the exim4 configuration > and the problem was solved. The mail gets thru without the error > message. [...] > My guess is that exim4 looks up the canonical name and tries to > check it against the configuration file /etc/exim4/passwd.client to > find login and password. When using the alias dns name in this file, > exim4 doesn't find any login and password. [...] > At least there should be a hint to this problem in the documentation > and the advice to check DNS names of mail servers and try them to > get things working. [...] See exim4-config_files(5). ;-) cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
