On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: > Well, after doing a clean install of Slink from cd's, it appears that the > mail system is not working. Last night, I did a clean install of slink, and > setup fetchmail and exim and tested them. Fetchmail pulled down my mail, > and eventually exim delivered it (over an hour later). > > Well, today I ran them for real (told fetchmail to fetchall instead of > keep). Fetchmail worked fine, but the mail has never been delivered. I can > see it sitting in my /var/spool/exim/incoming dir, but exim won't deliver > it. Now it has been close to 3 hours since the initial run. > > Also, I went to send this message out from tkrat and was given this error: > 550 relaying to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> prohibited by administrator. > > What the hell is going on, and how do I fix it. I desperatily need to get > my e-mail system working again.
Have you tried the command 'exim -bt -M <mail-id-number>' ? To get these numbers, do a 'exim -bp' Also, do 'ps ax' and find out from the exim entry how often Exim is delivering mail. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
