Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails No I was just asking. I'm just trying to figure out why I can send ema

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:21:09AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 > >"Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> so you can get to the machine, i.e. the po

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:00:10AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:16 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 "Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 "Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exi

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 11:00, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails >

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails so you can get to the machine, i.e. the port is not blocked. can you manu

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 10:19, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > >

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:19:46AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:37:55AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming

FW: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Belt
Your problem really seems to be DNS related. I would use the tools at www.dnsstuff.com. Just running the regualr DNS Report it will check a number of areas that your DNS settings could be wrong. Pay close attention to the MX portion or the report, to see if anything doesn't pass. Steve Belt

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... It was a common practice in my area that ISP's would block ports like 25

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 09:37, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails >

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails okay, so I had to try this to learn and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short b

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:33:04 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [ snip: Jon Dowland's nice mini-tutorial about dig and MX records ] > okay, so I had to try this to learn and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short bigpond.com mx > 10 extmail.bigpond.com. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.big

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:06:20PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald > wrote: > > As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm > > not sure what an MX record is. > > Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS > records co

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 05:54, Duncan McDonald wrote: > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > ... > > > Just a shot in th

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
A useful function is # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm > not sure what an MX record is. Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS records come in a variety of types: the most common being the 'A' record, which speci

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:47:15PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > "no server error", and the fact that you later say you > see nothing in your exim4 logs make me wonder if you've > setup MX records for your domain to point to the IP > address of your server? In the absence of MX records, maile

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:54:44AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > I actually set the 'listening' addresses option to blank. > I believe this means that my server should be listening on > all available network addresses shouldn't it? Yes, and you can verify this using "lsof -ni:25 | grep LISTEN",

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set to listen to 127.0.0.1 it will only accept connections from localhost, n

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Steve Kemp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian list" Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:47 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... "no server error", and the fact that you later sa

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a > problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly > from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within > th

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:41:29PM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > "The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected > by the server. The rejected email-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > Subject 'test', Account: 'blah', Server: 'mail.bigpond.com', Protocol: > SMTP,

Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
Hi all, I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within the network, I don't seem to be able to receive any email sent

Re: exim trouble with DB file... SOLVED

2003-03-04 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:49:42PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > | since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and > | "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. > | > | i get this daily in my cron reports--an

Re: exim trouble with DB file...

2003-02-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:49:42PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > | since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and > | "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. > | > | i get this daily in my cron reports--an

Re: exim trouble with DB file...

2003-02-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: | since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and | "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. | | i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to | fix it (or if it needs fixing): | | /etc/cron.da

Re: exim trouble with DB file...

2003-02-21 Thread Hilko Bengen
Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and > "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. > > i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to > fix it (or if it needs fixing): > > /etc/cron.daily/exim: > fail

exim trouble with DB file...

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to fix it (or if it needs fixing): /etc/cron.daily/exim: failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Invalid

Re: Exim trouble

2001-06-13 Thread Jonas bazz Egidius
Rajkumar S. wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a neatly configured exim running, but having problem with sending > mail to gnu.org.in. The problem is that the MX record is having an ip > address instead of name > > Non-authoritative answer: > gnu.org.in preference = 10, mail exchanger = 202.88.232.4

Exim trouble

2001-06-13 Thread Rajkumar S.
Hi all, I have a neatly configured exim running, but having problem with sending mail to gnu.org.in. The problem is that the MX record is having an ip address instead of name Non-authoritative answer: gnu.org.in preference = 10, mail exchanger = 202.88.232.42 and the Exim complaints that i

Re: exim trouble

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:36:58PM -0600, Russ Cook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am no longer able to receive mail from my ISP. This is a sudden > occurence, and due to no intentional action on my part. I'm attaching > the mainlog file in the hope that someone can give me some advice > regardi

exim trouble

2000-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
I am no longer able to receive mail from my ISP. This is a sudden occurence, and due to no intentional action on my part. I'm attaching the mainlog file in the hope that someone can give me some advice regarding what to check. Exim is running as a daemon. mainlog> 2000-11-17 18:28:12 unexpecte