cannot send smtp email with exim

[Peter Smerdon]

"Alexandra Zaharia" <f0rg3r at gmail.com> writes:

> On 2/29/08, Peter Smerdon <psmerdon at magma.ca> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello all
>>  My .fetchmail .procmail and .gnus files all are set up correctly as I can
>>  recieve all my mail. However sending mail fails with an authentification error:
> [snip]
>
> I'm not *really* sure on this... but shouldn't the file be ~/.fetchmailrc ?

sorry thats a typo in my email, the file is correctly named.

> Furthermore, 550 Authentication Required shows something went wrong
> with the authentication... not sure, but maybe this can be of use:
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.10/doc/html/spec_32.html

Thanks, I will read that
> If you're not sure if your ISPs mail server runs POP3 or IMAP, just
> use "AUTO" in the .procmailrc file - something like this:
>
> poll isp.mail.server with proto AUTO

actually I should not have even mentioned procmail as all I use it for
is to feed spam software, fetchmail gets my email and plaes it in my
spool for my MUA to read. I just need an ubuntu specific guide for
configuring exim with smtp auth or find another MTA that is simpler to
set up :-)

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Peter.