exim not sending mail
2.2.20
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?)
Basically what's going on is exim is not sending mail and is not giving
me any error messages except for in the logs. For a while I thought
every one was getting my email.
Problems started a week ago or so when I did some apt-get/deselect
update and I think a reboot. Perhaps something I changed a long time
ago got changed on the reboot.
Once exim told me that it cannot send my mail because "no space left on
device". There was ample room on /var and /var/spool . The first thing
i did was 'ln -s /var/spool /freepartition' ... ended up unlinking it
and somehow I did not get that error message any more but got some
permissions denied ... checked permissions and changed the exim stuff to
mail:mail (it was root:root)
Then mail was working again.
Never inquired why it said there was no disk space when there was
ample room.
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Now no mail gets sent. Mutt tells me "message sent" no errors nothing
in my default mbox
mail was not sent
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
checking /var/spool/exim/msglog is a bunch of files that read like:
16uGYF-0007NJ-00
'less 16uGYF-0007NJ-00' returns
2002-04-07 10:34:04 directing failed for joeheuring@cox.net
<joe@cox.net>: unknown local-part "joeheuring" in domain "cox.net"
*** Frozen (delivery error message)
I'm not sure what exim is trying to do here. "joe" is my user name on
the computer joeheuring is my email name for cox.net
my /etc/aliases has always read
joeheuring: joe
looking at that message it looks to me that it's trying to insert
<joe@cox.net> into the headers and then it's getting rejected by cox's
smtp but I know that's not it because there would be a rejection notice.
I also tried changing the alias around to read "joe: joeheuring"
Mozilla writes my header as Joe Heuring <joeheuring@cox.net> and it works.
help help I just want my Mutt VI back :)
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