RE: I need some exim hand-holding

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

Never mind, I got ssmtp to work over SSL. ${EXIM_MAINTAINER} might want to
check if what I was trying to do can actually be done on Cygwin though.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:47 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: I need some exim hand-holding
> 
> Ok, I give.  No mas, no mas.
> 
> I have a new mutt build ready to go, but I can no longer test 
> it since I've gone DSL.  AT&T does [E]SMTP over SSL, and 
> ssmtp (which I had been using) doesn't (the official Cygwin 
> one anyway).  So I'm trying to set up exim as a sendmail 
> replacement, and of course getting millimeters away from it 
> actually working and then being stopped cold by unknowns.
> 
> I'm going to try building ssmtp with SSL support, but in the 
> meantime, can somebody tell me what the secret is to getting 
> exim to work in this
> situation:
> 
> - This is on XP, NTFS, ntsec on.
> - This is send-only, as mutt has POP built in.
> - I'm trying to use it in this manner, in the Cyg-specific README's
> *nontsec* section:
> "6) Mail User Agent programs can use exim to send local and remote 
>    mail. If you are using mutt, add the following in .muttrc
>    set sendmail="/bin/exim -i" . To use exim from cron, point the 
>    symlink /usr/sbin/sendmail to /bin/exim ."
> - I'm using mua_wrapper, and not using the daemon at all, so 
> does this section still apply?
> "8) Due to file permission settings (there is no suid in Windows), 
>    Mail User Agent programs cannot call exim directly for local 
>    deliveries in a secure environment. They should smtp to exim on
>    localhost (port 25). 
>    This restriction can be lifted (while maintaining some security) 
>    by using the -odq option and giving append permissions to the 
>    spool, input and msglog directories and the log files, and read 
>    permission to the /etc/exim.conf file.
>    Deliveries are then made by the daemon on the next queue run.
>    This restriction is also lifted if all modes are 0777 or 0666."
> I'm getting no failures that look like file permission problems.
> - I appear to have TLS/SSL set up correctly, since exim gets 
> to the point where it receives a 221 and sends an EHLO or 
> HELO.  But then the AT&T server
> (apparently) just sits there, and after a few minutes drops 
> the socket.
> - I've read everything I can find and FWICT what I have in 
> /etc/exim.conf should work.  I have of course tried many 
> other permutations of options as well.  Attached if a kind 
> soul would care to look it over.
> 
> The results of an "exim -d g.r.vansickle@att.net" are also 
> attached.  Late breaking news: that was done using the same 
> exim.conf which is attached, with my ATT username and 
> password munged, but I get the same results when I have my 
> real UN & PW in (what I believe to be) the proper exim.conf locations.
> 
> So is it a Cygwin problem, an exim problem, or a Gary 
> problem?  I'll let you guys know how the ssmtp+SSL thing goes.
> 
> --
> Gary R. Van Sickle
> 


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