[Pkg-exim4-users] send from MUA fails

[Hal]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 4:08 AM, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:36:56AM -0700, Hal wrote:
>> I've just replaced a working exim3 install with exim4 and mail sent
>> from Mac's mail.app always fails whether the mac is on the same net
>> as the mail server or on a remote machine.  This setup was working
>> under exim3.  The exim4 config was set up from scratch using debian
>> conf utilities and then I added a router for a virtual domain I
>> handle.  Incoming mail from smtp servers on the internet always
>> works.  Sending from the command line on the server works.  But,
>> sending from the mail.app MUA always ends with the following in debug
>> output (all the clients are OS X so no other MUA has been tried).
>>
>> 5605 SMTP<< EHLO [10.0.1.14]
>> 5605 sender_fullhost = dsl081-064-038.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net
>> ([10.0.1.14]) [64.81.64.38]
>> 5605 sender_rcvhost = dsl081-064-038.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net
>> ([64.81.64.38] helo=[10.0.1.14])
>> 5605 set_process_info:  5605 handling incoming connection from
>> dsl081-064-038.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([10.0.1.14]) [64.81.64.38]
>> 5605 host in pipelining_advertise_hosts? yes (matched "*")
>> 5605 host in auth_advertise_hosts? yes (matched "*")
>> 5605 host in tls_advertise_hosts? no (option unset)
>> 5605 SMTP>> 250-teak.retrotech.org Hello
>> dsl081-064-038.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.64.38]
>> 5605 250-SIZE 52428800
>> 5605 250-PIPELINING
>> 5605 250 HELP
>> 5605 SMTP>> 421 teak.retrotech.org lost input connection
>> 5605 LOG: smtp_connection MAIN
>> 5605   SMTP connection from dsl081-064-038.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net
>> ([10.0.1.14]) [64.81.64.38] lost
>
> Is it possible that the mail.app insists on using TLS, which your
> server does not advertise? Is the old exim 3 still online for  
> reference?
>
Mail.app has an option to use "SSL" when sending but I decided to get  
exim4 running w/o it before I enabled TLS.  Maybe I should try TLS now?

No the old exim 3 is not available any longer, but it had worked for  
years with the same MUA's.

Thanks for the reply.   Hal

> Greetings
> Marc
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