At 1:39 am +0100 2004/03/08, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>hello,
>
>i'm using an exim4 in debian/testing as relay, and configured both relay
>and my workstation exim to communicate via smtp-auth. this seems to work
>well, and i thought that exim accepts _every_ from: header, hostname,
>ipaddress, rcpt, etc. per default if it's beeing used as relay through
>smtp
>auth with tls.
>i'm pretty sure that it uses tls since the logs of relay say:
>2004-03-08 01:14:49 1B08Px-0006eZ-CB <= jonas@???
>H=pd9e9cf97.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (nazgul.resivo.net) [217.233.207.151]
>U=Debian-exim P=asmtp X=TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16 A=login_server:jonas
>S=715 id=20040308001528.GI3836@???
[...]
>now the problem:
>normally the transport of mail works nice, but not always. some mails
>are rejected by relay for reasons i don't understand.
>for example:
>2004-03-08 00:56:19 H=pd9e9cf97.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (nazgul.resivo.net)
>[217.233.207.151] U=Debian-exim F=<jonas@???> rejected RCPT
><mejo@???>: relay not permitted
you'll presumably find few lines back the reason why AUTH did not work.
>after changing the sys user mailing from at my workstation most new
>mails are accepted by relay, but after some testmails, it restarts
>rejecting mails for senceless reasons and without any orderliness.
Are you using Pam to authenticate users? Is that set up properly?
(someone wrote the proper module to use in linux, I don't know much
about it as in MacOSX it is unnecessary).
[...]
Giuliano
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