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

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

your quoting is erratic. It is very hard to read your message. Please
get acquainted with the customs on e-mail lists.

I have severely edited down your message to make my answer at least
marginally readable.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:14:33AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Can you verify from the debug output whether your exim tries to
> reject, and whether the authentication is successful?

You didn't write that.

> 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.

You didn't write that as well.

> How do you try sending directly from exim4?

Neither did you write this.

> 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.

That is good news. Issue solved?

> One possible explanation of this question is that you don't have
> knowlegde about how SMTP works. Please substantiate the question.

Again, you didn't write that.

> Correct.  I don't know how SMTP works.

Please get acquainted with the tools you're using on the public
Internet. If you don't know how E-Mail works, you're going to be
abused, and you don't have the knowledge to prevent that. At your
current level of knowledge, please consider to refrain from running an
SMTP server on the Internet.

> I am working at learning bash scripting and may study that if statement
> 
> >>as part of my education but not yet.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Which if statement?
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> .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.

That configuration snippet is not a script. And bash never sees it.

Greetings
Marc

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