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

[cam at ellisonpsychology.ca]

> 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?

The error message is "An error occurred ... The mail server responded:
Relay not permitted..."
The log entry:
2008-04-09 13:33:51 H=h24-207-104-15.cst.dccnet.com [24.207.104.15]
F=<cam at ellisonpsychology.ca> rejected RCPT <judi.ellison at dccnet.com>:
relay not permitted

>
> 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.

Setting it to 'smarthost" has no effect.  Importantly, the behaviour
occurs with clients like Thunderbird, KMail, and Sylpheed; it does not
occur with Squirrelmail (which I am using at the moment), nor with mail
commands issued by php scripts that are part of my online assessment
system.  They just work.  So does mutt.

Squirrelmail sends as localhost, and that should be true of the php
scripts.  Sending with mutt produces this log entry:
2008-04-09 14:07:54 1JjhWM-0003K8-Ml <= cam at ellisonpsychology.ca U=cam
P=local S=764 id=20080409210754.GA12299 at ellisonpsychology.ca
2008-04-09 14:07:57 1JjhWM-0003K8-Ml => judi.ellison at dccnet.com
R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=mail.dccnet.com [24.207.1.253]
2008-04-09 14:07:57 1JjhWM-0003K8-Ml Completed

There's something about the output from the (tested) GUI-based clients
that makes it look to exim4 like a relay.  My questions remain: what is
it, and what do I need to do with exim4.conf.conf to deal with this?

Thank you both for responding

Cam




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