Re: exim - what is missing in my set-up?

[Sandip P Deshmukh]

Shyamal Prasad wrote:

   Sandip> now, my question is, what do i need to do to get exim
   Sandip> working?

Actually, I think it is working.

i also tend to agree with you now. i do not think my exim set-up is flawed.

I think the above lines indicate that
the message was accepted and delivered to the smarthost (it's been a
while since I've seen a failure so I can't be sure). You can verify
with 'exim -bp' to see if you queue is empty.

it is empty.

You can also look in the
paniclog and rejectlog to determine if something is wrong.

hey, since exim is doing its job, there is not paniclog and no rejectlog either

Any host that accepts SMTP for your mail can be a
smarthost.

i too thought so. but am faced with the problem that exim washes its hands clean saying the transfer to smarthost was competed. i think that is what it means by 'completed' in mainlog file. but the smtp server doesnot do anything.

   Sandip> what if there is no smart host to do the job for me? can i
   Sandip> not use exim? and will i have to always use mozilla with
   Sandip> an smtp server specified for delivering mail - the windows
   Sandip> way?

Don't panic! You will get it to work (keep in mind that in the last
year you are the rare Debian user on this list who has had so much
trouble with exim,

S C A R Y!

so perhaps this might be a local problem with your
network, rather than with Debian's exim setup).

i too think so. but this has helped me learn a lot - the best way to keep young!

I think your problem might be the @deshmukh.work domain name you
invented for yourself.

do you think i should change it to escortsmumbai.com? will it help?

Something or someone in the mail delivery path
is upset with it and is not accepting your mail. As a result, the mail
is being bounced back to you, but it can't reach you.

i think you have a point here

(If it was your
local exim that was upset, this is exactly the kind of message that
would be "frozen").

agreed!

What are qualify_domain and qualify_recipent set to at the top of your
exim.conf file? If you say 'deshmukh.work' for any of them I'd be
pretty confident that you've found your (next? :-) problem.

for qualify_domain it says deshmukh.work. qualify_receipient line is commented out. could you elaborate a bit more here?

PS: I took the liberty of trying to send a test message to the address
you used above that had a broken From header.

what address do you mean? sorry - i am confused here!

My exim was a little too
well configured and it fixed it my broken message for me. So you got
it.

i am yet to see it! but surely i will reply if i get it!

Apologies for the spam ;-)

no problems. such spam is welcome!

i thank the list again for being patient with my troubles. it has been a gret experience with me! i am feeling increasingly sure that i will be able to solve the problem. and my special thanx to 'spammer' ;) shyamal

- sandip


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