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Subject: Re: How to use Exim with GMX and other quests
From: Felix Natter <f.natter () ndh ! net>
Date: 2000-12-31 17:26:53
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Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch> writes:
> Hi all
>
> I have some Exim questions. I comming from a SuSE system wich uses
> Sendmail so i have very little knoledge about exim. First of all: I use
> Kmail to get my mail via POP3. I use a relay, mail.gmx.ch, for outgoing
> mail so i chose option 3 in eximconfig. If i try to send a local email
> (via Kmail) i.e to me@myhost.mydomain.ch then exim doesn't send anything.
> If i type sendmail -bp i get the mail in the queue... How can i say exim
> to deliver the mail.?
> Secnd problem. GMX uses the today non-standard to login via SMTP
> (RFC-2554) as lots of cliants can do that. Is it possible to give exim a
> username and a password to login in the smarthost?
>
> General question: Is better to use sendmail than exim i thought to use
> exim because the debian developpers would have thought something before
> they decided to use it apart of sendmail...
> Thanks a lot.
I don't have a clue what you are referring to when you say relaying,
but your setup sounds closer to eximconfig's (2)-option: accept local mail
(fetchmail from your pop3-host) and send mail via smart-host (mail.gmx.ch).
I configured it like this, and now exim sends my mail in an ip-up script.
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