Error setting up SMTP via Exim4

Resiarlleh

6/25/23, 2:42 PM

I just started at my current role and I'm the only IT guy...

I have a server that is used to send emails to a local smarthost but they just switched to using Office 365 and it "never worked" since then...

I googled it but I cannot really "tell" what I'm doing wrong (I've never used Exim4 before now...)

When P look at the maillog I see a bunch of things like this and its not sending...

[email protected] <root@server> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host for 'email.com'

I've edited the /etc/exim4/passwd.client file to have the correct email and password and I have edited the dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config to have the smtp server as smtp.office365.com:587

Any ideas?

EDIT

so after changing some things in the config this is what it shows when i do a mail root

Admin@server:~$ sudo tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog
2022-02-25 12:23:57 1nNeJx-0000Tl-GC => :blackhole: <root@server> R=system_aliases
2022-02-25 12:23:57 1nNeJx-0000Tl-GC Completed
2022-02-25 12:30:51 1nNeQd-0000uu-2f <= Admin@server U=Admin P=local S=442
2022-02-25 12:30:51 1nNeQd-0000uu-2f => :blackhole: <root@Server> R=system_aliases
2022-02-25 12:30:51 1nNeQd-0000uu-2f Completed
2022-02-25 12:52:52 Start queue run: pid=7812
2022-02-25 12:52:52 End queue run: pid=7812
2022-02-25 13:03:01 1nNevl-0002Zg-Ri <= Admin@server U=Admin P=local S=442
2022-02-25 13:03:01 1nNevl-0002Zg-Ri => :blackhole: <root@server> R=system_aliases
2022-02-25 13:03:01 1nNevl-0002Zg-Ri Completed

but i never get any emails to the email i have it "set" to send to... any ideas?

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Bob

6/25/23, 3:06 PM

For that particular error: [`exinext [user@]example.com`](https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-exim_utilities.html#SECTfinindret) might be useful but such errors are more a symptom rather than linked to specific error/misconfiguration. You will need to dig deeper in the logs.

Resiarlleh

6/25/23, 6:04 PM

Im updating the initial bit above.

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I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Error setting up SMTP via Exim4

TH: เกิดข้อผิดพลาดในการตั้งค่า SMTP ผ่าน Exim4

RO: Eroare la configurarea SMTP prin Exim4

RU: Ошибка настройки SMTP через Exim4

VI: Lỗi thiết lập SMTP qua Exim4

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