I have a local box which I want to be able to send mail... specifically
I want bugzilla to be able to mail people.
I have no idea how to make it a mail server, or if my ISP would even
allow it, but I have a dedicated server from
http://liquidweb.com/ so
I'm pretty sure I can use that as a smarthost, and just relay my mail
through there. So I've read some manuals, and run my exim4-reconfigure
or whatnot, and I thought I had it... but mail won't get through. I'm
pretty sure it's a matter of not authenticating with the smarthost
properly, but I'm really at a loss. Not sure exactly what information is
useful, but I'm hoping the below is.
Some extra information which may or may not be useful, Thunderbird is
perfectly capable of sending mail through this server, but I have SSL
turned on as a secure connection for the authentication, I don't know if
this is making a difference, but I haven't run into a place in the docs
yet to turn on SSL for exim4
Right now I tried the following command
mail -v -s testtest someone@???
and was greeted with the following
LOG: MAIN
<= rob@??? U=rob P=local S=323
rob@localmachine:/etc/exim4$ delivering 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE
R: smarthost for somegmail@???
T: remote_smtp_smarthost for somegmail@???
LOG: MAIN
** somegmail@??? R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: retry time
not reached for any host after a long failure period
LOG: MAIN
<= <> R=1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE U=Debian-exim P=local S=1185
LOG: MAIN
Completed
delivering 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP
R: smarthost for rob@???
T: remote_smtp_smarthost for rob@???
LOG: MAIN
** rob@??? R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: retry time
not reached for any host after a long failure period
LOG: MAIN
Frozen (delivery error message)
===================
And my exim4 mainlog contains...
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE <= rob@??? U=rob P=local
S=323
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE ** somegmail@??? R=smarthost
T=remote_\
smtp_smarthost: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure
period
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP <= <> R=1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE
U=Debian-exim P=l\
ocal S=1185
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rC-JE Completed
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP ** rob@??? R=smarthost
T=remote\
_smtp_smarthost: retry time not reached for any host after a long
failure perio\
d
2005-11-17 11:01:45 1Ecn8r-0004rF-PP Frozen (delivery error message)
