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David Berg

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More options Jan 30 2006, 5:10 pm

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From: David Berg <drberg1...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:10:21 +0100

Local: Mon, Jan 30 2006 5:10 pm

Subject: gmail as smarthost in exim

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I just struggled through getting exim setup to use gmail as a
smarthost. Since I had a hard time finding the instructions I needed,
I thought I'd add them here to save someone else some time. Simply
adding:

smtp.gmail.com : drberg1...@gmail.com : passwd

to /etc/exim4/passwd.client as the docs say didn't work.

After digging on the internet I found somebody's suggestion to add a
second line:

gmail-smtp.l.google.com : drberg1...@gmail.com: passwd

to /etc/exim4/passwd.client.

Anyway if you want the step by step:

set smtp.gmail.com as the smarthost by either running
'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' or setting
dc_smarthost='smtp.gmail.com' in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf.

add the lines:
smtp.gmail.com : drberg1...@gmail.com : passwd
gmail-smtp.l.google.com : drberg1...@gmail.com: passwd
to /etc/exim4/passwd.client

One might beable to just use the gmail-smtp.l.google.com server as the
smarthost and follow the directions in the documentation but I didn't
try that.

Hope this helps.

--Dave

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