[Pkg-exim4-users] How to get around "Must issue a STARTTLS command first"

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

  On 07/31/2010 10:12 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> As I said, I am trying to deliver emails to the smtp server of my
> university as it is my ISP.
>
> I have set in
> 	/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/000_localmacros
>
> DCsmarthost=smtp.host.foo.bar::587
>
>
> but any time exim tries to send an email out via that smtp I get an
> error message telling me
>
> ...
>    590885 at bugs.debian.org
>      SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<preining at logic.at>
> SIZE=2963:
>      host XXXXXXXXXX [NN.NN.NN.NN]: 530 Must issue a STARTTLS command
> first
>
You must configure exim to authenticate with the smart host. See 
http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/README/README.Debian.html#smtp-auth


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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