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

[David Baron]

On Saturday 26 May 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:46:44PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > What the problem is that exim4 does not allow plaintext passwords in
> > smarthost authentication by default. The provider apparently will not
> > accept TLS and such so I need to enable plaintext though not the best
> > idea.
> >
> > SO I placed the following
> > in /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:
> > .ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
> > AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = yes
> > .endif
>
> You can skip the ifndef/endif stuff since this only is a protection
> against macro redefinition.
>
> You are still using split config? If so, you have made the change in
> the right place. Did you restart exim afterwards?
>
> > I have in /etc/exim4/passwd.client:
> > provider-smtp...:username:password
>
> 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.

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.)