Re: [exim] sending e-mail through a directnic server

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Author: Andrew C Aitchison
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To: Gary Dale
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] sending e-mail through a directnic server
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, Gary Dale via Exim-users wrote:

> On 2019-11-28 2:40 a.m., Graeme Fowler via Exim-users wrote:
>> On 27 Nov 2019, at 20:44, Gary Dale via Exim-users <exim-users@???>
>> wrote:
>>> The test message sent by swaks (in the testing section of the howto) again
>>> simply sits in the mailq.
>> I know this should be a *really* obvious question, but?
>>
>> What do the logs say for each attempt to deliver the message? Are there any
>> attempts to deliver?
>>
>> Graeme
>
>
> Apart from lots of "frozen" messages, I found this and some similar entries:


If you run something like:
    exigrep dental logfile
you will get your log sorted by message, which may make things clearer.


> removing the dentaloffice from the domain name, which is how I used to have
> it before going through the smtps howto, and sending a new message to
> garydale@???, I got this:


[ Reformatted by AA using grepmail. Has long lines. ]
2019-11-28 07:39:45 1iaJ5F-00053v-JS <= root@??? U=root P=local S=791
2019-11-28 07:39:46 1iaJ5F-00053v-JS ** garydale@??? R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=rossland.dental [104.171.30.152] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no DN="C=US,postalCode=70002,ST=Louisiana,L=Metaire,street=3500 N. Causeway Blvd Suite 160,O=DNC Holdings Inc.,OU=Support,OU=Hosted by DNC Holdings\, Inc.,OU=PremiumSSL Wildcard,CN=*.dnchosting.com": SMTP error from remote
mail server after RCPT TO:<garydale@???>: 550-Please turn on SMTP Authentication in your mail client.\n550-cpe0018e7d3134a-cm00195ed9bd6e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com\n550-(molar.dentaloffice.rossland.dental)
[99.248.179.149]:51442 is not\n550 permitted to relay through this server without authentication.
2019-11-28 07:39:46 1iaJ5F-00053v-JS Completed

+++ 1iaJ5G-00053y-5k has not completed +++
2019-11-28 07:39:46 1iaJ5G-00053y-5k <= <> R=1iaJ5F-00053v-JS U=Debian-exim P=local S=2748
2019-11-28 07:39:52 1iaJ5G-00053y-5k ** root@??? R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=rossland.dental [104.171.30.152] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no DN="C=US,postalCode=70002,ST=Louisiana,L=Metaire,street=3500 N. Causeway Blvd Suite 160,O=DNC Holdings Inc.,OU=Support,OU=Hosted by DNC Holdings\, Inc.,OU=PremiumSSL Wildcard,CN=*.dnchosting.com": SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550 This message was classified as SPAM and may not be delivered
2019-11-28 07:39:52 1iaJ5G-00053y-5k Frozen (delivery error message)


> It looks like the remote smarthost thinks I'm not using TLS.


No. TLS is about encryption. The 1iaJ5F-00053v-JS log says that the remote
smarthost thinks you are not *authenticating* (which should, but may or
may not be, encrytped).

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Andrew C. Aitchison                    Kendal, UK
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