Re: Gnus with Exim

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Hey Steven,

I just got back from a trip on which I was occasionally disconnected,
and it looks like there were some messages that never got delivered.
They are showing up in /var/spool/exim/input/, and in fact I am seeing
about 50 of those, and I'm not certain how many may have been deleted
due to 

   ignore_bounce_errors_after = 2d
   timeout_frozen_after = 7d

In my exim.conf.  I gather they've been "frozen."

Well, with some googling I found that I can 

      exim -qff

to get them all sent, but I'm wondering what the most effective way of
dealing with this is.  It seems kinda silly that a notice can fail to
be delivered *to me* by an exim running on this machine, and the
messages will get thrown out eventually!

Oh, look:

  2005-06-22 09:28:08 IIHMQV-0002DG-CL ** dave@boost-consulting.com R=smart_route T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<dave@boost-consulting.com> SIZE=2969: host smtp.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.99]: 530 Authentication required
  2005-06-22 09:28:08 IIHMQW-0004MO-AF <= <> R=IIHMQV-0002DG-CL U=dave P=local S=2900
  2005-06-22 09:28:08 IIHMQV-0002DG-CL Completed
  2005-06-22 09:28:09 IIHMQW-0004MO-AF ** dave@boost-consulting.com R=smart_route T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=3998: host smtp.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.99]: 530 Authentication required
  2005-06-22 09:28:09 IIHMQW-0004MO-AF Frozen (delivery error message)

So my use of

  smart_route:
    driver = manualroute
    domains = ! +local_domains
    transport = remote_smtp
    route_list = * smtp.rcn.com:smtp.boost-consulting.com

Is not helping because it reaches smtp.rcn.com, but then that server
asks for authentication!  AFAIK there's no authentication I can
actually give it that will work from outside my cable modem, and it
forbids authentication from behind my cable modem :(

This is a little discouraging!  Got any sage words for me?

Thanks,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com