gregor herrmann wrote:


> I understand your confusion

Thanks gregor ;-)

configtype smarthost I have in my update-exim4.conf indeed. A curious thing
about the configuration is, that in the case I have
written 'mail.alice-dsl.net' instead of 'smtp.alice-dsl.net' the
message 'unable to relay' turns to authentication failure... As I now have
found out, it could be an error of my isp, because they naturally won't
relay an email of an external host (spam) and so the relayhost is different
from my normal email-configuration.


> well, yes, you could check with any email client.
kmail works fine...

I will try on - being a little 'blockhead' (in the positive sense - don't
know the right word for this...)

Jens

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