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On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2018-01-19 20:19, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> >>>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an |
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>> >>>> SMTP server? |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>> Errr, no. exim does SMTP. |
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>> >>> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need |
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>> >>> to hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange. |
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>> >> Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility |
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>> >> that has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail. |
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> FWIW, you can plug in your existing script into exim as a custom |
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> "transport", in the exim terminology. In fact that is what I used to do |
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> for years, to stuff outgoing mail into sendmail on a system where I had |
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> a shell account. But if I understand the problem now (a well sized if, |
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> LOL) that doesn't by itself help you because the existing script is |
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> broken; replacing the script is the main part of the problem. Right? |
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The existing /usr/bin/sendmail (that's not it's actual path) script |
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works fine. It's the SSL support in the SMTP server that invokes the |
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/usr/bin/sendmail script that's broken. I've modified that server to |
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run an instance of stunnel and use plain SMTP (sans SSL). It looks |
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like that's probably going to work. There's a custom SSL server |
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because at some point in the past it had to do some odd things with |
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headers and the envelope from field (it also implements some special |
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logging). Then at some later point in the past, the requirement for |
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those odd things went away. At some other point in history, the SSL |
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support in that server got broken. The actual failure is intermittent |
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(it depends on message size and network timing), so it's taken a while |
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to track it down and decide what to do about it. |
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For now, I'm going with the custom server and stunnel. If there are |
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problems with that, I'll try one of sendmail/postfix/exim. [One of |
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the hassles with those is that portage won't allow me to install any |
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of them because they conflict with msmtp, which is what I use for |
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sending normal e-mail.] |
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