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

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:09:02PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:10:03PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 May 2007, you wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:09:00PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > > > > In outlook express, one would check authentification required and
> > > > > enter simply 'v'. (Usually there will be fields for username and
> > > > > password)
> > > >
> > > > What would "v" mean?
> > >
> > > Good question. How much more security can such an authorization bring?
> > > However, that is what they said to do.
> >
> > They want you to enter "v" as username and password for authentication?
> 
> I tried it. Did not work. Their instructions to their Outlook Express users 
> were just that: check requires authorization and enter 'v'. But putting
> smtp.....:v:
> in password.client did not work.
> Problem is that no one at the provider knows linux or exim.

Maybe it helps to use an intermediate debugging tool like swaks to
find out what the provider's box wants to see (and what it advertises)
and then in a second step coax exim into doing what the ISP wants.

Greetings
Marc


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