Re: [SLUG] SEnding email by Verizon

From: Mindspring (savatage@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 23:32:27 EST


Thanks Russell,
It works great in my case I am using Road Runner and when I need to check my
mindspring mail I use Road Runner going to pop.mindspring.com then out going
I just tried the setting you mentioned works like a charm for the smtp
thanks.

Bill Preece

p.s. Learn something new every day : )

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] SEnding email by Verizon

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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
>
> - --
> Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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