On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:43:20 -0700, Mike Easter 
wrote:

>MArtin wrote:
>> unfortunately it is set by
>> avast and i don't know of a way to change it.
>
>Avast's configuration for the email/news sig-ish ad trailer is in
>Configure shield settings/ Mail shield/ Add a signature to the end of
>sent mails - uncheck

Thanks I believe that I have changed it.

>There's an article about exim and smtp.gmail.com that claims to be last
>edited 2019 Jul, but all its references are much much older
>
>http://www.fyzix.net/index.php?title=Installing_and_Configuring_Exim4_for_Gmai
l_SMTP_Relay
>  Installing and Configuring Exim4 for Gmail SMTP Relay  This page was
>last edited on 30 July 2019, at 19:59.

Very similar to where I had my configuration. The references I used
originally were:
https://wiki.debian.org/Exim4Gmail
and
https://www.sbprojects.net/projects/raspberrypi/exim4.php

They gave me a happily working configuration - until it stopped
working.

I do like your references troubleshooting suggestion of nuke the
install and start all over again. For completeness it should probably
have a more drastic suggestion involving physical violence for when it
still doesn't work.

Thanks
MArtin

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