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I called up earthlink's tech support to figure out how I could send mail via
their smtp server. They told me to use smtpauth.earthlink.net, with my
username as my full earthlink email address and my password. I use exim to
send my mail out, though I'm sure that sendmail or other MTA would work.
There's a script for setting up some basic config options called eximconfig
(hey!). There's roughly 5 options, then you have to dig into exim.conf to
customize for what you need. In exim.conf, there's a ton of options but for
me in particular, I send mail via a smarthost (smtpauth.earthlink.net).
The thing that killed me was the rewriting part. The default setting sends
out mail with a return path to your machine. This allowed me to send out
email, but the SLUG list in particular didn't show my mails, which really
told me that I still hadn't quite done everything right. So...[1] is the
"Rewrite Configuration," and this part basically translates my local user
information into my true outgoing email address (from rusty, my local user,
to rhires@earthlink.net). In particular, exim looks for a second file called
/etc/email-addresses. You just put your local user and that person's true
email address there, and then everything was fine and dandy.
I read in the Exim docs somewhere that you can telnet to port 25 of the
smarthost's smtp server to find out what kinds of encryption it supports.
This is important because you don't want to send your username/password out
in cleartext. :-) Item [2] is the bottom of the exim.conf file...I
uncommented these items, entering my username/pass...and it works just fine!
HTH
Russell
[1] From my exim.conf
######################################################################
# REWRITE CONFIGURATION #
######################################################################
# There are no rewriting specifications in this default configuration file.
# This rewriting rule is particularly useful for dialup users who
# don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone.
# It looks up the real address of all local users in a file
*@poet.village-smurf.com ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
end
[2] From the bottom of the exim.conf file
cram_md5:
driver = cram_md5
public_name = CRAM-MD5
client_name =
client_secret =
On Friday 08 November 2002 17:11 pm, you wrote:
> Several days ago some one posted a partial explanation of what they had to
> do to send email through Verizon to Earthlink.
>
> I would appreciate it if that person could provide a more detail
> explanation of how they accomplished this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
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