On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:30:59PM +0100, William Pursell wrote: > I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things > work fine. When I tried to send mail using: > > $ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file > > The mail was returned to me with: > SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > SIZE=2522: > host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [64.233.183.109]: > 530 5.5.1 Authentication Required d23sm9741312nfh > > I was a bit surprised that mailx was trying to contact google, > so I looked through /etc/exim4 and didn't find any references > at all to google. I then added my gmail account to > /etc/exim4/email-addresses and sent an email > using mailx to my google account. After about 12 hours, > that mail has disappeared. (ie, I haven't gotten a Mail delivery > failure, and I haven't received the email.)
I don't use gmail but my dial-up ISP requires SMTP auth over an unencrypted connection. You need your email address in /etc/email-addresses so that exim will rewrite your from line correctly. You need a correct line in /etc/exim4/passwd.client I also needed to add a file to /etc/exim4/conf.d/main called 000_localmacros which contains the line: AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = TRUE Without which, exim will not send a password since the connection is not encrypted; the password goes out in the clear. Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]