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icon5.gif   Exim4, posted by Matthew D. on Tue Apr 23 22:14:42 2013 
    icon2.gif   Re: Exim4, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Apr 24 11:00:41 2013 
Message ID: 67478     Entry time: Wed Apr 24 11:00:41 2013     In reply to: 67477
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.9.2 
Subject: Re: Exim4 

Matthew D. wrote:

 Hi,

My email configuration is a little complicated as all emails must be relayed to a central server with TLS authentication. 

So far I've been unable to get the ELOG to work with email, after numerous attempts .  I have got exim4 working on this machine but I don't understand how the elog sends emails well enough, to configure it to recognise and use exim4.  Setting localhost/ my domain/ IP  (and variations) under 'smtp host' doesn't work. (cannot connect to server)

The most interesting error I have been able to get is:

"AUTH command used when not advertised"

or

"Unrecognized authentication type"

Any advice?

 

Not much. ELOG uses plain SMTP to port 25, but does not support TLS internally. From your error messages above it looks like exim4 (which I never used) uses a different authentication scheme than ELOG supports. ELOG dos a "AUTH LOGIN" which is described for example here:

http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html

Maybe you can try authentication completely off (remove "SMTP username" from elogd.cfg) ?

/Stefan

 

 

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