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On Tuesday 24 May 2005 7:47 am, Henry Bremridge wrote:
Running debian sarge
Lots more information required - you haven't included any of the headers let alone a summary of your existing config. Which options did you choose in exim config? What have you set for /etc/email-addresses, hostname and other bits.
I am having some problems with sending email. Sometimes the email goes through, sometimes it is rejected with the message "SMTP error from remote mailer ..... after RCPT to ...... Relaying denied".
Probably actually trying to send from the wrong address - check the headers. You have to send email From: an address that is acceptable to your SMTP connection - generally this is an ISP / DNS issue, not exim. If you are trying to send from the local machine, you cannot send from the internal box name as it cannot be resolved by the ISP. You must use other config files outside exim to change an internal address to a valid external address. You may also need to determine whether an email needs to be changed - if you send email from one internal box to another. This is a job that /etc/email-addresses (installed by exim) tries to solve but it needs other parts of the system to be working as well.
All very irritating, and obviously my exim4 set up is wrong
Not necessarily exim itself, there are lots of other config files involved in mail.
Finally when I look at the headers of messages I have sent from my debian box, the headers contain far too much information,
If you want to send email to the internet from the command line, then this information is going to be present - the hostname of the local box, it's IP, the various commands and their replies. Various email clients also add various headers for their own purposes / user config. Precisely what information are you concerned about? There's nothing in email headers that is a risk to your system.
compared to other email headers, and I would like to keep the header information to an absolute minimum
?? That doesn't make sense - headers are not under your direct control. What the headers do is tell you WHERE a message has been and this, in turn, tells you where things are going wrong.
I have tried going through the man exim pages, and I have even tried to read the www.exim.org documentation: despite the rather offputting phrase that "this is very much a reference manual and not a tutorial.
The problem is not necessarily in exim - only the headers will tell you where things are going wrong. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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