Hello,
Sébastien CARRE wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Today, I wanted to configure a new smarthost on Exim that allow us to
> send mails with a bigger size.
> The old smarthost use the port 25 without authentification and it
> works perfectly.
> The new one is an ESMTP server and I have to use the port 587.
>
> So I modified, the exim config :
> dc_smarthost = 'smtp.some_host.fr::587'
>
>
> And added the authentification parameters in the
> /etc/exim/passwd.client, like this :
>
> 'smtp.some_host.fr':login:password
>
Your question seems very Debian specific, therefore you should probably
ask on debian mailing lists.
But I think the quotes in 'smtp.some_host.fr':login:password are the
culprit. Did you try without the quotes?