[Pkg-exim4-users] Difficulty getting exim4 to authenticate to smarthost

[Tim Johnson]

Adam Barratt's response got it.  Sorry, missed replying to the list on this:

Thank you very much.  I'd be hammering on this for a
week.  I'd generated the exim4.conf file because I got tired of
grepping for settings to modify - that was the mistake.

Thank you and it's working perfectly now.  I really appreciate the help

Happy New Year.

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Adam D. Barratt
<adam at adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-12-30 at 14:42 -0600, Tim Johnson wrote:
>> First off, I'm going to apologize in advance.  I'm sure that I'm doing
>> something wrong, but I've looked at post after post, and feel like
>> I've tried everything I've seen suggested, and still am stuck with the
>> same issue.
>>
>> I'm attempting to get exim4 to send non-local email out through an
> [...]
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> --------exim4.conf (relevant portion)-------------
>> .............
>> # debconf-driven macro definitions get inserted after this line
>> UPEX4CmacrosUPEX4C = 1
>> ##############################################
>> # the following macro definitions were created
>> # dynamically by /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf
> [...]
>> ------------exim4.conf.localmacros-----------------
>>
>> AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true
>
> If you've supplied an explicit exim4.conf then nothing will be reading
> exim4.conf.localmacros - that file is only used as part of
> update-exim4-conf's use of exim4.conf.template to
> produce /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated,
>
> Does adding the macro definition in to exim4.conf directly help? (Or
> removing the explicit configuration file and just specifying the
> smarthost via debconf and update-exim4.conf.conf.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>