I keep getting a 451 Temporary local problem - please try later whenever I try to send out from my exim 4.41 server after it ques my message for delivery. I dunno what gives, smtp auth works fine too it'll just que the message then bam, 451 Temporary local problem - please try later Maybe permissions wrong somewhere? I dunno Here is my exim.conf for shits and giggles:

http://home.comcast.net/~golbez81/exim.conf

Also, when I try to send mail TO the server or an address on the server I get a 550 Administrative prohibition

what version of exim is this ??????? i'm talking about exim 4 but i might have the older files as well somewhere

first thing i see are these two line together

exim_user = root (seems like exim would have complained about that one on startup)
never_users = root

i don't think those two ideas are going to get along too well !

try
trusted_users = exim (posibly "mail" look and see if you have a user mail or exim in /etc/passwd)
never_users = root

i also think i'd comment out 100% of that authentication stuff and use
under the hostlist relay_hosts line put
hostlist auth_relay_hosts = *

after you make changes to the file restart exim and it will give you an ear full if it can't understand the new directives.

just keep writing back -- like all mail server stuff this might take a little effort

I got it working now, but I can't get SMTP Auth to work cause pam wants to be root and exim doesnt like to be run as root at all

What's the best way to get SMTP Auth working in Exim without having to run exim as root? I'd rather steer clear of cyrus-sasl if at all possible.

It's Exim 4.41 with the exiscan-acl patch

commenting out all the auth info and putting that line under the relay hosts on the conf file just says Exim doesnt support SMTP Auth when I try that from my mail client.