On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:30:52PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:29:40PM -0700, Joe Heuring wrote: > > | Exim version 3.34 #1 built 19-Jan-2002 17:51:35 > > | Hello all. I've asked for help on this to another group and hope I'm > | not cross posting to early but it's Sunday and I would really like my > | mutt back as I have to type a bunch of emails tonight. (this message > | brought to you by mozilla - there's not a way to incorporate VI into > | Mozilla is there?) > > Not that I know of. Well who'd use it any way if you have Mutt? I like Mozilla (the worst gui browser there is except for all the others?) It's been running better than Netscape ever did for me.
> > | Basically what's going on is exim is not sending mail and is not giving > | me any error messages except for in the logs. > > That's where error messages go :-). Daemons don't have a "stdout". Oh. I'd like to change that for me. If Exim has any problems what so ever I would like it to send me an email. People were emailing me, I was replying thinking they got em. Only after days go by, "gee no space left on my /var partition" ... I haven't yet read the documentation or any howtos for this. Any pointers, good links for customizing Exim to send me emails for various stuff? > > | Now no mail gets sent. Mutt tells me "message sent" no errors nothing > | in my default mbox > > Mutt did send the message. It sends to a pipe to "sendmail" (a > symlink to the exim binary). exim accepted the mail. mutt's job is > now done, it has successfully sent it ... to the next link in the > chain. > > | mail was not sent > > The next link (exim) failed to pass the message on to the link after > it. This is what we will correct. > > | checking /var/log/exim/mainlog I see at a rate of about 60/second is > | inputed a ton of: > | > | 2002-04-07 17:40:12 16kWfM-0004qW-00 Message is frozen > > You've got 60 frozen messages I guess :-). No 60 in one second. Pages and pages of "frozen messages" logs > > | checking /var/spool/exim/msglog is a bunch of files that read like: > > Hmm, that's a different log than I have. Do you mean "mainlog"? Nope 'ls -l /var/spool/exim/' drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 7 10:47 db drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 737280 Apr 8 06:34 input drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 20480 Apr 8 06:34 msglog > > | 2002-04-07 10:34:04 directing failed for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: unknown local-part "joeheuring" in domain "cox.net" > | *** Frozen (delivery error message) > | > | I'm not sure what exim is trying to do here. > > I see exactly what the problem is. You have sent a message that > should be delivered to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". HOWEVER, you told exim > that your own machine is "cox.net". You don't want to do that. Do > you have your own domain name? If not, then make something up > (something like `hostname`) to tell exim who it is. At any rate, you > are not "cox.net", and you'll have lots of trouble trying to send a > message to anyone at cox.net right now. > > | Mozilla writes my header as Joe Heuring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and it works. > > Mozilla doesn't send outgoing mail through exim, AFAIK. It does the > SMTP negotion directly (which is not a good idea for various reasons). Oh right. The Mutt and Mozilla reference was only to isolate that the solution was with in Exim. > > > In your /etc/exim/exim.conf file you'll see a line like > local_domains = cox.net : localhost > remove the "cox.net" from it (and the ':', it's the list element > separator). Alternatively you can simply rerun 'eximconfig' and > _don't_ tell it that the local domain is "cox.net". If you want some > instruction on what the questions eximconfig asks mean, try this > message : errr yeah I remember on the fresh Debian 2.2 Woody install that I did not have the Eximconfig set up exactly correct. It was the only combination that I could get to work though. I made your changes and of course it works. Somehow I was under the impression that it was *very wise* to let only Eximconfig edit that file. > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user%40lists.debian.org/msg82754.html I'll check that out. I realize now that I have to do a learning drive on mail mail and mail. Suddenly I need to have a virtual email server, list servers, and automatic emails going to people. What ever starts the automatic emails would pull the addrs and other info from a database. I think that's how to set it up, but I don't know. > > HTH, > -D That helped alot. > > -- > > (E)ventually (M)allocs (A)ll (C)omputer (S)torage > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
