Re: [Exim] Authentication/Relay problems

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Author: Vadim Vygonets
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Authentication/Relay problems
Quoth Matthew Daubenspeck on Sat, Jan 05, 2002:
> I am mainly using Windows Eudora as the mail client, and have been testing
> it extensively on 3 remote machines. Two machines are completely remote and
> cannot relay at all, and receive the standard 550 error, even though they
> are set to use Authentication.


Do they really authenticate? Try to run 'exim -bh' with their IP
address and authenticate manually. Can you relay then?

> The third machine is behind the same
> firewall as the server, and seems to authenticate and relay perfectly. The
> ONLY way I can get the other two clients to properly relay messages is to
> add their hostname to the host_accept_relay section.


Is authentication logged for them?

Vadik.

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