RE: Mail system all fouled up
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.
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Andrew
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