anyone good with exim4 or debian config files?

[Jesse Lazar]

hello,

i am having an email problem on my debian sarge desktop system. it goes

like this: some of my email does not get through to the recipient, some

of my email takes days to get through and some of it seems to do the 
right thing. it seems to me like it is dependant on the recipients spam

settings.

i suspect that the problem is i am not sending my mail through my isp's
smarthost so it looks like spam. i think that the debian configuration 
is set up so that this will happen automatically, however the stock
settings do not want plain text authentication... 

excerpt from the exim4.conf.template file:
# Because AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN send the password in clear, we
# only allow these mechanisms over encrypted connections by default.
# You can set AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS to allow unencrypted
# clear text password authentication on all connections.

my isp says that you must not encrypt passwords, regarding smtp 
authentication.

i added the line (top of the exim4.conf.template):
AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true

then i edit the CONFDIR/passwd.client file by adding a line similiar
to:
mail.server:blah:secret

then,
$ update-exim4.conf
$ /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
$ mail jlazar(nospam)@basicisp.net
$ fetchmail 

the above does not return any errors. but i must say that i am just 
guessing at what do. when i look at the message i just sent i see the
line:

Received: from localhost.localdomain (unverified [4.233.164.63]) by
mail21.cisp.com
 (Rockliffe SMTPRA 7.0.6) with ESMTP id <B0001389299 at mail21.cisp.com> 
for <jlazar_nospam_ at basicisp.net>;
 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:58:40 +0000

its the "unverified" that bothers me.i don't see this in messages that
people send to me. i don't what to make of the above line or the
situation. also, if i send a message to my yahoo account it takes days
to be delivered.

well, if anyone has any advice i'd really appreciate it.

thanks,

jesse lazar




 
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