Re: [flalug] exim won't send from mutt

From: smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 11:27:05 EST


I do not think you have posted the correct config file. My exim config file is
called /etc/exim/exim.conf and contains 4,258 words with 666 lines.
And we both use the same version 4.44.
Smitty

On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:03, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I'm running into a bit of an issue here with email.
>
> I've migrated an email account (the one that gets email from this list,
> actually) from Thunderbird to mutt. I've got mutt working beautifully with
> fetchmail delivering mail through exim after retrieving it from the POP
> server where my account is hosted. That's great.
>
> I can't send email, though.
>
> This is a Debian Sarge/Testing system with kernel 2.6.8 running mutt 5.6.1
> and exim 4.44 (basically because exim was isntalled by default with
> Debian). When I try to send email from mutt, it goes to exim, which then
> attempts to send it, and it bounces as though the SMTP server doesn't
> exist.
>
> I do have a router-firewall in place on this network, but it's certainly
> not blocking outbound email traffic (considering I'm sending this email
> from Thunderbird on the same machine where I'm trying to configure exim).
>
> The text of /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf (the configuration file for
> exim on Debian, apparently) is as follows:
>
> dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
> dc_other_hostnames=''
> dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
> dc_readhost=''
> dc_relay_domains=''
> dc_minimaldns='false'
> dc_relay_nets=''
> dc_smarthost='www.apotheon.com'
> CFILEMODE='644'
> dc_use_split_config='false'
> dc_hide_mailname='false'
> dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
>
> I'm kind of at a loss, here. What am I doing wrong? The man pages aren't
> helping much, and I can't even locate an instance of someone else having
> this problem through google.



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