[Pkg-exim4-users] Relay not permitted: thunderbird/icedove

[David Baron]

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 23:12:45 Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:56:12PM -0700, cam at ellisonpsychology.ca wrote:
> > but I cannot send from Thunderbird (or
> > KMail, for that matter).
>
> What are the symptoms? Error messages, log entries, anything?

You need to configure your provider smtp as a "smarthost" rather then send to 
it directly. If you are using exim4, check its documentation. Note the type 
of authentication the provider requires, whether it is encrypted or plain 
text (less secure). My problem with this started when 012 began to require 
authentication to send (even if I were logged on).

Once smarthost is configured, your kmail or icdove or whatever will sent to 
localhost and  exim4 or its equivalent will do the rest.