Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
On Sun, August 26, 2007 22:53, Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]
#-------------------------
tls off
host FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME_OR_IP_OF_SMARTHOST
from YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
auth plain
user YOUR_USERNAME
password YOUR_PASSWORD
#-------------------------

Done that. Sending from the VM, now I get

msmtp: the server does not support DSN
msmtp: could not send mail (account default from /home/richard/.msmtprc)
[...]
Maybe you need "dsn_notify never" and/or "dsn_return off". I am not sure
if this is really the reason for the failure or just a warning message.

Update:

These dsn settings do not help. It seems clear that msmtp expects a
DSN compliant server. Bytemark, the ISP, suggested configuring exim4
in forward-only mode, but I am not confident of my ability to get that
right, any more than I did with my previous attempt to configure exim4.
I decided to seek an alternative. esmtp and ssmtp seemed candidates,
but neither can be installed because

- ssmtp conflicts with exim4-config
- esmtp conflicts with exim4-daemon-light.

Can anybody suggest an alternative approach?

The only alternative I can see is to simply remove exim4 and install
several smaller packages that may be easier to configure, or to try with
the courier MTA in place of exim4 -- I already have courier IMAP. I
have no idea whether either of these will make anything easier.

--
richard


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