how to get exim to send email?

SciYro · 09-08-2004, 01:47 PM

I'm currently using thrunderbird to try and send email to my online email address (just for no reason, i got bored today)

anyways, I'm using exim as the MTA, and qpopper as the pop3 server (i think it should work right?)

anyways, i installed them, but right now I'm stuck with exim not sending my email

i have thunderbird configured to use the loopback device as the server, and it works fine, but exim keeps returning (at least acording to thurnderbird)

"
Varification failed for
<username@127.0.0.1>

Unrouteable address

sender verify failed" ... then it asks me to check preferences (the username is my username, and the address i used was both 127.0.0.1 and my ip address according to ifconfig

anyways, i tried going thru the manuals and docs, and even the default config file (tried removing the ACL's but that just led to it saying there was a internal error

anyone know how to get this thing to send email?

bulliver · 09-08-2004, 02:59 PM

Make sure you have these in your exim.conf:

Code:

hostlist   relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1
# allows mail from localhost to be relayed to an external server
allow_domain_literals
# allow "user@127.0.0.1" addresses.

Note that "allow_domain_literals" is NOT a recommended setting, especially on a production machine. If I understand, you are just fooling around with this, but ip addresses can easily be spoofed, turning your box into an open relay for spammers.

A better idea is to create a hostname for your box (if you haven't already) then edit/add these lines in exim.conf:

Code:

primary_hostname = your_hostname
domainlist local_domains = your_hostname

If this still doesn't work for you, you can test if the problem is with exim or not by telneting to port 25 and sending mail manually:

Code:

[me@mine]$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 nina.badcomputer ESMTP Exim 4.41 Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:51:57 -0700
helo localhost
250 nina.badcomputer Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
mail from:user@address.com
250 OK
rcpt to:another_user@another_address.com
250 OK
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
This is a test email
.
250 OK id=1C58a9-00043g-M6
quit
221 nina.badcomputer closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

SciYro · 09-08-2004, 05:56 PM

ah thanks,..

ok, the problem is diffidently not exim, well. at least i can telnet into it and send a simple message just fine, (curiously tho, there was no address on the message when it arived at my yahoo inbox )

anyways, thunderbird is still not getting along with exim , any ideas? (i tried both of those options and thunderbird is still not playing)

also i have one more question, is there some special setting needed for qpopper ? when i try to get my mail (well,... not like i have any, just checking is i can) it keeps coming back saying something like "pam :unknown module (28) " ... any ideas on that either?

foo_bar_foo · 09-08-2004, 06:29 PM

qpopper distributes a very good manual called GUIDE.pdf
if it's not in your docs you can get it from the website and it's in the source tarball as well

SciYro · 09-08-2004, 07:26 PM

thanks ... looks like i can look forward to reading manules in the next few days

shame thres no program that can whip misfit programs into shape ./...