I wrote:
> My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I
> need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to
> send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is
> "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au". A quick "grep adam exim.conf" gave
> me:
> route_list = "* adam.ist.flinders.edu.au bydns_a"
> so I changed this to:
> route_list = "* mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au bydns_a"
> and then did "/etc/init.d/exim restart".
>
> Surely this is all I need to do I thought. But when I sent off a test
> message and looked at /var/log/exim/mainlog it had:
>
> 2000-06-13 08:56:03 131dal-0001s8-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> U=mark P=local S=1016
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000-06-13
> 08:56:06 131dal-0001s8-00 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=r
> emote_smtp H=adam.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.1.21] 2000-06-13
> 08:56:06 131dal-0001s8-00 Completed
>
> So it is still using adam.ist.flinders.edu.au!!!!!! What is wrong?
To add to the mystery, I did "/etc/init.d/exim stop" to kill the exim
daemon, and then tried sending a test message. The message was sent
successfully, with a similar message to the above!! So what did it?
It wasn't the exim daemon. I'm reasonably sure it wasn't inetd. What
else is there though????
Some how exim is being activated when sending an email --- and this
activation still uses the old configuration.
Anyone know what's happening??
Cheers,
Mark.
> I
> thought perhaps this invocation of exim is via the inetd??? But if I
> look at inetd.conf I see:
>
> #disabled#smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim
> -bs
>
> which would suggest that exim is disabled through this mechanism????
>
> I'm confused. Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark.
>
>
> P.S. I read this list via the archives, which means a delay, so please
> cc replies to me. Thanks.
>
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