On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth Matthew Daubenspeck on Sun, Jan 06, 2002:
> > Ok. Read the O'Reilly manual and whipped up a quick PHP => base64_encode
> > script. Using the login authentication, the user from the first test IP is
> > authenticating perfectly.
>
> Sounds good, this means your authenticator is correct. Do you
> see 'AUTH' when you give the EHLO command?
>
> > However, if I remove this hostname from hosts_accept_relay when trying to
> > send a message from win-Eudora, I get a 550 relay error.
>
> This sounds like Eudora does not try to authenticate. First,
> authenticated messages should have 'asmtp' as protocol in
> Received: headers. Make the guy mail you and look at the header.
> I wonder whether there's a way to log all SMTP commands.
Or, possibly its authenticating, but its doing so does not let it relay?
If you don't already have it, try adding
host_auth_accept_relay = *
to your main config settings..
>
> > I actually went as far as dumping the Eudora programs from one computer to
> > another, so I know Eudora is set up correctly. The only thing I can see
> > that MAY be different is that the firewall IP has a domain name pointed to
> > it. With my DSL connection, I am using a dynamic hostname service
> > (www.dns2go.com) for domain support. Could it be that exim is somehow
> > seeing the dynamic hostname as well as the real ISP-server based hostname
> > (pool-151-222-123-32.phil.east.verizon.net for example) and getting
> > confused with the difference? Not sure. Has confused heck out of me for
> > months...
>
> Exim should see the hostname in DNS PTR records (the verizon.net
> one, I believe). It should not matter, really.
>
> Vadik.
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