please don't top-post.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:26:40PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> I tried changing the option below and restarted Exim. That doesn't seem
> to have made any difference in the log file.
might be my bad. the proper line is
QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS='-d'
^
but the line should already be in your /etc/default/exim4 and just
needs editing.
BTW, I just tested it on my mail server and it promptly produces
copious output to stdout when you /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
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> I setup Evolution, and set it to use our exchange box as a smtp server,
> that worked fine. When I set the smtp server to that box, I get a
> "172.16.0.39 Connection Refused" error. 172.16.0.39 is the IP of the
> server.
now I'm confused. first you say it works fine and then you say it
doesn't. please elaborate.
>
> I also JUST noticed that when I do a "ps aux | grep exim" there aren't
> any exim processes running! So I went to \etc\init.d\ and run "./exim4
> start". It reports that it is starting the MTA... No error messages are
> reported. However doing a "ps" still doesn't show any exim processes!
> There are no errors in syslog related to exim not starting that I can
> see.
wah? what does the log show just after attempting to start it?
please provide output of
dpkg -l exim\* | awk '/^ii/ { print $2, $3 }'
also please provide /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf (you can strip
the comments.
thanks
A
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> whoops, sent this to Nathan personally instead of thelist. sorry...
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:07:06PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> > I changed the IP to 127.0.0.1. That sill didn't help.
> >
> > Here are the contents of the log file:
> >
> > student-test:/etc# more /var/log/exim4/mainlog
> > 2007-07-18 08:12:42 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5024, -q30m,
> > listening for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
> > 2007-07-18 08:12:42 Start queue run: pid=5025
> > 2007-07-18 08:12:42 End queue run: pid=5025
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:29 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5404, -q30m,
> > listening for SMTP on [172.16.0.39]:25
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:29 Start queue run: pid=5405
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:29 End queue run: pid=5405
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > U=nathan P=local S=401
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Unrouteable address
>
> well... I don't know what to tell you. Couple things you could try.
> First, can you get to the net from this machine? I know its basic, but
> sometimes...
>
> Also, edit /etc/default/exim4 and put a QUEUERUNNEROPTION='-d' in there,
> restart exim4 and look at all the pretty output and see if you can see
> why its not routeing the address.
>
> also look at man exim as there are a number of options for running exim
> in various debugging modes that might help.
>
> I've never had a problem with exim... it mostly just works for me in a
> number of configurations, so without sitting down and seeing _exactly_
> how its configured, I'm out of ideas.
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