Re: [Exim] Problem when trying to send mail to my smarthost …

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Auteur: Nigel Metheringham
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Aan: Erik Wesselius
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Problem when trying to send mail to my smarthost through exim (fwd)
erik225@??? said:
> I want to switch to a fetchmail/exim/exmh constellation. After some
> puzzling, incoming mail is handled ok now, but I have a problem with
> outgoing mail [details below] and although I have gone through quite
> some documentation and e-mail archives, I cannot figure out how to
> solve this.


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> while the Exim rejectlog has recorded:
> 2000-08-23 11:21:27 refused relay (host reject) to
> <ewesselius@???> from <erik225@farolito>
> H=farolito [127.0.0.1] (erik225)


add 127.0.0.0/8 to your host_accept_relay spec in your exim config - ie

host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.0/8

and restart exim (killall -HUP exim) afterwards.

exmh/mh injects mail by SMTP to 127.0.0.1 - you need to allow that to
relay mail off your machine.

    Nigel.


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