Bug#421980: exim4: ALL outgoing mail returned "Relaying not allowed"

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:15:39PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Is provider-smtp still smtp.012.net.il? If so, I currently do not see
> > any issue why this should not work. Maybe debug output obtained by
> > running
> >
> > echo foo | exim -d-all+auth+deliver+transport
> > mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
> >
> > can help in finding out. This debugging output should not contain any
> > private data such as passwords.
> 
> The PLAIN AUTH was sucessful on this and seems to be OK (but not always).
> 
> THe "macro" was not enough, it seems. There is a line in the 
> remote_smtp_smarthost "transport" macro 
> said uncomment following line to disable TLS on outgoing connections so I did 
> that.

this should not be relevant as smtp.012.net.il does not advertise
STARTTLS. Exim should not try using it in this case, so I do not think
that it would be really necessary to disable TLS on the transport level.

Can you provide debug output of a failed session with TLS not disabled
on transport level?

Btw, smtp.012.net.il says "454 4.7.1 TLS library initialization
failure." when trying to use STARTTLS even if not advertised, which is
a clear sign of an accidental misconfiguration of the host.

> Now to persuade the provider that their server "upgrade" to plain text
> auth is not such an upgrade and TLS would be better :-)
> 
> In any event, that exim command test generates a lot of output and it
> cannot be redirected to a file (maybe there is an options for the
> command line to do so.)

$ echo bla | exim -d+all mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de > output.exim 2>&1
$ ls -al output.exim
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mh mh 45K 2007-06-05 17:12 output.exim
$

Looks to me as if redirection works fine. You need to redirect stderr
as well since that's where debug output is printed to.

Greetings
Marc

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