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

[Adam D. Barratt]

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