Jens-Olaf Lindermann wrote:
> Robert Harris wrote:
>
>
>
>> Your smarthost will not relay mail from jenslindermann@yahoo.de - if you
>> have a different "From:" email address, say, somebody@alice-dsl.de then
>> it will probably work fine.
>>
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> alas it will not... Local deliver works fine: As I send myself an email at
> my local adress, I will see it in mutt. But when I try to send e-mails to,
> say, jenslindermann@yahoo.de (to the www), there always comes the
> message "SMTP 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay..." This is strange, because with
> kmail or icedove smtp it works.
>
> confused
> Jens
>
> I know it is OT here, but in the german mailserver-group nobody answers. And
> beside - exim is not a mailserver but a mailclient in my case. ;-)


Exim is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) -- an SMTP mail server.

It is not a POP3 or IMAC mailbox server -- an MDA (Mail Delivery Agent).

Your "client" would be Mutt and/or Mail/Mailx, Icedove, KMail, etc. They
are MUAs (Mail User Agents).

Do you have Exim configured correctly? I receive nightly logs sent by
INN running on a Sarge box, which go to my MTA+MDA (Stalker Internet
Mail Server -- SIMS) running on an old Mac. I download them from a
Ubuntu box into Thunderbird.

I can also send mail to an Internet address from that same computer, if
I use a FQDN.

I do use a BIND9 DNS server on the LAN though, which would make
addressing different than sending out to an ISP mailbox. So using a FQDN
might be required in your case.

Have you tried to reconfigure Exim with sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config ?

Maybe trying a low priority ( sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4-config )
to see all of the options. If available, -pcritical is even more thorough.

You can choose one of four types of configurations. If I remember
correctly, "Internet" should be the choice, indicating the mail is not
to be kept on the local machine. Just read the questions carefully and
select the best answer.

Also check your /etc/aliases file to make sure it is correct because
Exim uses it.


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John

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