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Setting up a sendonly mailserver on ubuntu is relatively straightforward. Exim can accept messages from remote hosts using smtp over tcpip, and as well as from local processes. Next, to make exim4 use the saslauthd service, the debianexim user needs to be part of the sasl group. Enter the following command to start exim configuration. Deploy exim as a sendonly mail server on ubuntu 12. Exim is a message transfer agent mta developed at the university of cambridge. I have a password proteced ssl smtp server that i could route the mail through, but i have been unsuccessful in figuring out how to configure exim4 to make this work.
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