Re: exim won't relay mail

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

dman wrote:
> 
> I setup exim on my system this weekend, but it's not working quite
> right.  I had a school assignment to create a simple smtp client so I
> setup exim so I could test it without blocking the phone line.  exim
> delivers locally just fine.  However, it won't send any mail to other
> domains.  I have it configured as a "smarthost" and I can send
> messages using the remote server via telnet.  exim's log seems to
> indicate that it thinks it delivered the message, but messages aren't
> getting out.
> 
I've been debugging my exim at work lately, and one thing I do is change
/etc/init.d/exim:

start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DAEMON -- -bd -q30m -d9
                                                      ^^^

When you do your 

/etc/init.d/exim start

you'll get debugging messages on your terminal.  Exim will be running
nondetached on that terminal, by the way.

/etc/init.d/exim start 2> error.txt

is also a good idea.  

If anyone knows a way to make exim use standard logging with the debug
output, I'd like to hear about it, because it doesn't seem to work for
me.

Also, anybody ever get bind to timestamp its debugging output?  Not
having the timestamps in named.run is a pain in the butt.