On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:12:39 +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How are you reading your e-mails? Where are the files stored? How is >> Dovecot configured? Is it pointing to the right path from where to read >> the user mailbox? > > Hmmm, in a bid to isolate the problem (and because Dovecott > configuration looks scary) I turned off Dovecot and tried Mutt with Exim > set up to dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'. Mmm... default Exim4 configuration should not require for you tweak nothing in order to send local messages so I would start from here and once this works as expected you can start the next step but if local mails do not work the rest will fail. That said, try to send yourself an e-mail form the machine Exims runs: *** sm01@stt008:~$ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 stt008.linux.site ESMTP Exim 4.69 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:17:27 +0200 helo linux.site 250 stt008.linux.site Hello localhost [127.0.0.1] mail from: sm01@localhost 250 OK rcpt to: sm01@localhost 250 Accepted data 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself test . 250 OK id=1SfZDk-0002H5-5i quit 221 stt008.linux.site closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. *** Now you read it: *** sm01@stt008:~$ mailx Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help. "/var/mail/sm01": 1 message 1 new >N 1 sm01@localhost Fri Jun 15 18:18 15/473 & 1 Message 1: >From sm01@localhost Fri Jun 15 18:18:03 2012 Envelope-to: sm01@localhost Delivery-date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:18:03 +0200 From: sm01@localhost Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:18:03 +0200 test & *** (by default messages are stored at "%HOME/mbox") If this simple test fails then you better stop here, read the log and solve the problem in first place :-) > Though I could send mails with Mutt I could not receive any, suggesting > the problem is indeed with Exim? I had previously been using both Mutt > and Roundcube (via Dovecot) to get at mail. Forget by now about Mutt/Roundcube/Dovecot/.forward "extras" and put your efforts in making Exim to deliver your messages to the default mailbox settings. Once this is working fine you can continue adding things to the chain. > Any suggestions on how to proceed? I am now thoroughly confused... there > do seem to be a lot of frozen messages in the log, could these be > something to do with it? For example: > > 2012-06-15 06:45:02 1SfD4X-0002ZH-90 Message is frozen (...) All those messages share the same time, they have to be all the failed tests you've been doing. You can try to force Exim to deliver again ("exim -d -M 1SfD4X-0002ZH-90" where "-d" is to toggle on debug flag and "-M" is for the message identifier) but I'm afraid until Exim is not properly configured it will fail in the same way. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jrfo2h$bf6$7...@dough.gmane.org