On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 17:06, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Saturday 24 May 2003 15:44, Bart Garst wrote:
> > I've never configured an MTA before and I'm finding it rather difficult.
> > I'm using exim v3.35 & mutt v1.3.
> >
> > What I want to do is send a message to my cox account. What do I need to
> > configure in exim.conf? I would assume I need to tell it where to find
> > cox's smtp server and my cox account id. Since I'm not well versed in
> > mail transport lingo, reading the config file and exim docs haven't
> > helped me much.
> 
> Open up /etc/exim/exim.conf with your favorite editor.  Look for the 
> 'lookuphost:' router and comment it out (and all the lines related to it).  
> In its place, add the following lines:
> 
> smarthost:
> 	driver = domainlist
> 	transport = remote_smtp
> 	route_list = * smtp.west.cox.net bydns
> 
> This worked for me with exim3 under Debian.  I have since moved to exim4 which 
> is a bit different.
> 
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Thanks Kurt, that helped some. Now at least the proper mail server is
rejecting my messages. Here's a bit of the response:
bartgarst@cox.net
  SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<bks@necgate> SIZE=1431:
  host smtp.west.cox.net [68.6.19.4]: 553 necgate.cox.net does not exist

The part confusing me is the "necgate.cox.net". Necgate is the name of
my machine. What did I miss that allowed this error?

Bart