> You didn't show what happened earlier. Did you issue an AUTH command?
> Was it accepted? If not, the session is not authorized.
i issue the commands Marc suggested:
$ swaks -n -s mail3.techsoft.com.hk -a -au
gilbert@??? -ap 123123 -t a@???
=== Trying mail3.techsoft.com.hk:25...
=== Connected to mail3.techsoft.com.hk.
<- 220 mail3.techsoft.com.hk ESMTP Exim 4.50 Wed, 18 May 2005 20:35:47 +0800
-> EHLO wwwnew2.techsoft.com.hk
<- 250-mail3.techsoft.com.hk Hello wwwnew2.techsoft.com.hk [192.168.1.15]
<- 250-SIZE 5242880
<- 250-PIPELINING
<- 250-AUTH PLAIN CRAM-MD5
<- 250 HELP
-> AUTH CRAM-MD5
<- 334 PDE2NjQyLjExMTY0MTk3NDdAbG9jYWxob3N0Pg==
-> Z2lsYmVydEBtYWlsMy50ZWNoc29mdC5jb20uaGsgNjk4Nzk4OWI1N2Q2YjA4YTA4ZTYzY2ZhOWFk
ODU5YjU=
<- 235 Authentication succeeded
-> MAIL FROM:<root@???>
<- 250 OK
-> RCPT TO:<a@???>
<- 250 Accepted
-> DATA
<- 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
-> 9 lines sent
<- 250 OK id=1DYNm7-0004KQ-3r
-> QUIT
<- 221 mail3.techsoft.com.hk closing connection
=== Connection closed by foreign host.
> authenticated=* just tests whether the session was previously
> authenticated. The authentication checks happen in the configured
> authenticators.
Thanks for your explanation.
it seems to me that "accept authenticated = *" don't think the session
was previously authenticated.
when client's MUA connect directly to EXIM, it didn't ask the MUA
password and simply think they're NOT authenticated, so "relay not
permitted" happened??
what step(s) do i miss? :-(
is there something to do with ident??
Thanks for your time again
