[Pkg-exim4-users] smarthost relay problem

[Rob Brenart]

I have a local box which I want to be able to send mail... specifically 
I want bugzilla to be able to mail people.

I have no idea how to make it a mail server, or if my ISP would even 
allow it, but I have a dedicated server from http://liquidweb.com/ so 
I'm pretty sure I can use that as a smarthost, and just relay my mail 
through there. So I've read some manuals, and run my exim4-reconfigure 
or whatnot, and I thought I had it... but mail won't get through. I'm 
pretty sure it's a matter of not authenticating with the smarthost 
properly, but I'm really at a loss. Not sure exactly what information is 
useful, but I'm hoping the below is.

Some extra information which may or may not be useful, Thunderbird is 
perfectly capable of sending mail through this server, but I have SSL 
turned on as a secure connection for the authentication, I don't know if 
this is making a difference, but I haven't run into a place in the docs 
yet to turn on SSL for exim4

Right now I tried the following command

mail -v -s testtest someone at gmail.com

and was greeted with the following

LOG: MAIN
<= rob at remotehost.com U=rob P=local S=323
rob at localmachine:/etc/exim4$ delivering 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE
R: smarthost for somegmail at gmail.com
T: remote_smtp_smarthost for somegmail at gmail.com
LOG: MAIN
** somegmail at gmail.com R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: retry time 
not reached for any host after a long failure period
LOG: MAIN
<= <> R=1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE U=Debian-exim P=local S=1185
LOG: MAIN
Completed
delivering 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP
R: smarthost for rob at remotehost.com
T: remote_smtp_smarthost for rob at remotehost.com
LOG: MAIN
** rob at remotehost.com R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: retry time 
not reached for any host after a long failure period
LOG: MAIN
Frozen (delivery error message)

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And my exim4 mainlog contains...

2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE <= rob at remotehost.com U=rob P=local 
S=323
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE ** somegmail at gmail.com R=smarthost 
T=remote_\
smtp_smarthost: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure 
period
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP <= <> R=1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE 
U=Debian-exim P=l\
ocal S=1185
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE Completed
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP ** rob at remotehost.com R=smarthost 
T=remote\
_smtp_smarthost: retry time not reached for any host after a long 
failure perio\
d
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP Frozen (delivery error message)