[Pkg-exim4-users] Debian Exim Setup Problem - Solved

[Thomas H. George]

Marc Haber wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:35:03PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
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>>On the 9th Sridar M. A. wrote (in a message I printed out but erased):
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>As this message didn't show up on the list, he probably didn't want
>the private communication to be public. Posting private mail on a a
>public mailinglist is usually frowned upon.
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The printout shows he replied to the debian-users list in response to my 
posting "Can't Get Exim4 Setup Right"
This was before I read all the documentation and did not yet know of the 
pkg-exim4-users list.
.I tried this at the time without success not realizing that his choice

>>of file to edit was appropriate when using a split configuration. After 
>>floudering around wildly and asking a lot of dumb questions it finally 
>>dawned on me that I was not using a split configuration.
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>Did you read the documentation?
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It was by reading the documentation that I became aware that he was 
editing a file used by the split configuration.

>>Of course, this hack does not solve the problem with the Debian script.  
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>And not answering the questions I asked in my answer to your question
>is not going to solve it either.
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Marc, I apologize, I did not mean to not answer your questions.  When I 
found none of my previous efforts had authenticated the connection I 
thought the issue was moot.  You asked,

This helped but I am still stumped.  I am fairly sure the verizon 
> authenication is right because one of my changes clearly caused it to be 
> rejected.


Can you verify from the debug output whether your exim tries to
reject, and whether the authentication is successful?


>> The problem now is a message "No MAIL  FROM command has been issued."  
>> Indeed just before this there is a line:
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>> SMTP>> MAIL FROM: <> SIZE = 2258
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That looks quite valid. Can you please verify with telnet or swaks
whether verizon is willing to accept a bounce from your machine after
you have authenticated? They have some pretty strange e-mail policies,
so I would be willing to believe that they might not allow their
customers to send out bounces.

I have never used telnet or swaks.  I just checked apt-cache show swaks and I see it is a very powerful tool.  If it would be helpful I will install it and try to test the verizon response.

>> I thought the problem might be with my .muttrc but I tried sending mail 
>> directly from exim4 with the same result.
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How do you try sending directly from exim4?

I simply executed the command exim4 -v mail at tomgeorge.info.  A blank line followed on which I entered text.  A second blank line appeared on which I entered a period.  This now works and the text message is delivered to my mailbox.

>> Where might the MAIL FROM  command be?
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One possible explanation of this question is that you don't have
knowlegde about how SMTP works. Please substantiate the question.

Correct.  I don't know how SMTP works.



I am working at learning bash scripting and may study that if statement

>>as part of my education but not yet.
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>Which if statement?
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.ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS.
  client_send = "${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}{\
                     ^${extract{1}{::}\
		       {${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}}\
		     ^${extract{2}{::}\
		       {${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}}\
		   }fail}"
.else.
  client_send = "^${extract{1}{::}{${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}}^${extract{2}{::}{${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}}"
.endif.

My editing has been a little choppy, I hope this helps.

Regards,

Tom George