Author: Hadron Quark Date: To: W B Hacker CC: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] TLS Authentication at gmail failing
W B Hacker <wbh@???> writes:
> Hadron Quark wrote:
>
> *snip* largely circular discussion by now...
>>
>> I have no idea what you are talking about. Thanks for your help,
>> but it seems this is more trouble than its worth. Even the wiki didnt
>> work.
>
> Can we start over, please?
Yes. Any help much appreciated.
>
> What sort of messages, besides the chron'ed reports mentioned, do you wish to
> get from your Linux box to the outside world?
What cron reports? Are you referring to the exim log? See below.
>
> Does your Linux box, for example, support users other than yourself who need to
> send and receive mail? Mailing lists? A Wiki? Webforms? or what?
>
> There are many possibilities, some of them dirt-simple, but we are getting
> wrapped up in the details of the process before understanding the specifics of
> the need.
I must admit to being a little confused by the previous reply which
seemed to be getting into coding details about stuff I had never heard
of. I will start again:
I want exim4 configured to deliver email using a smarthost. A Gmail
smarthost. This is one of the 3 or 4 main "modes" of exim it would
appear so why this should be "extremely complicated" as suggested
earlier is a surprise to me.
I have:
added the procmail_pipe to my config for local mail delivery : works fine.
modified my passwd.client
added port=587 to my config
set the smarthost to be smtp.gmail.com in my config
updated the config
restarted the exim server