On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:37, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> mpierce wrote:
>
> > It appears that exim (exim-tls 3.35-3woody1) is not listening to my
> > local loopback connection since having to use dialup as I am getting the
> > following error when cron launches fetchmail every 15 minutes:
> >
> > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> > mail.optusnet.com.au
> > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
>
> Have you tried telnet localhost 25 ?
> IIRC debian starts exim via inetd (don't ask me why ...), so maybe you
> should start there.
>
> Nico
>
>
>
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Yes, I tried that. This appears to be some sort of SMTP authentication
processing problem. Here is what I've done in trying to setup the
client:
1) root@libranet:/etc/exim# telnet mail.optusnet.com.au 25
Trying 211.29.132.13...
Connected to mail.optusnet.com.au.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail004.syd.optusnet.com.au ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6p2/8.11.6;
Thu, 9 Oct 2003
12:38:34 +1000
EHLO libranet
250-mail004.syd.optusnet.com.au Hello
winax28-b216.dialup.optusnet.c om.au [211.29.29.216], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 5000000
250-DSN
250-ONEX
250-ETRN
250-XUSR
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250 HELP
quit
221 2.0.0 mail004.syd.optusnet.com.au closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
2) echo -n '\0username\0password' | mimencode
XDBtcGllcmNlXDBtcnAwNzEzNQ==
NB: I don't know if I've created this correctly as I can find no
documentation on this or if the file should just contain username
password.
3) Created /etc/exim.passwd with the following entry:
XDBtcGllcmNlXDBtcnAwNzEzN
NB: What needs to be in this file?
4) vi exim.conf and uncommented sections plain and login:
plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
client_send = "^username^password"
NB: should I put username and password in above line?
login:
driver = plaintext
public_name = LOGIN
client_send = ": username : password"
NB: does both sections need to be uncommented?
5) /etc/init.d/exim restart
Since it is not authenticating itself with the mail.optusnet.com.au
server, it is not picking up mail and the only way I can get mail is to
use the Evolution client. This is causing me to be buried in doing this
by passes fetchmail, exim, procmail, spamassassin, etc.
