Exim No Longer Sends Mail
Last month I discovered that I can no longer send mail
using mutt and
exim on a dialup connection. I upgraded both with no
success, and I can
find nothing wrong with the configuration, so I am
using a yahoo mailbox
and pleading for help.
I can send mail back to myself with mutt, and I can
send a message to my
yahoo address without exim by telnet to my isp mail
server. But running
mutt generally or exim directly with the -v option
fails.
Following are the results of the exim session and what
I believe are the
essential lines of my exim.conf file. To summarize the
script file: after
failing with exim, I ran host, which also failed, then
broke the internet
connection and logged back on, after which running
host succeeded.
Thanks for any help or guidance.
Bob Parnes
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Script started on Wed Feb 9 07:59:29 2005
bp@debian:~$ /usr/sbin/exim -v rparnes001@yahoo.com
Test 3 with exim
.
LOG: 0 MAIN
<= bp@debian U=bp P=local S=305
bp@debian:~$ Exim version 3.36 debug level 1 uid=8
gid=8
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9:
(May 26, 2004)
delivering message 1CyrN0-0000cq-00
Connecting to mx1.mail.yahoo.com [67.28.113.11.25] ...
failed
LOG: 0 MAIN
mx1.mail.yahoo.com [67.28.113.11]: No route to host
Connecting to mx1.mail.yahoo.com [67.28.113.10.25] ...
failed
LOG: 0 MAIN
mx1.mail.yahoo.com [67.28.113.10]: No route to host
Connecting to mx1.mail.yahoo.com [64.157.4.78.25] ...
failed
LOG: 0 MAIN
mx1.mail.yahoo.com [64.157.4.78]: No route to host
Connecting to mx2.mail.yahoo.com [67.28.114.35.25] ...
failed
LOG: 0 MAIN
mx2.mail.yahoo.com [67.28.114.35]: No route to host
Connecting to mx2.mail.yahoo.com [64.156.215.8.25] ...
failed
LOG: 0 MAIN
mx2.mail.yahoo.com [64.156.215.8]: No route to host
LOG: 0 MAIN
failed to open DB file
/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: File exists
LOG: 0 MAIN
== rparnes001@yahoo.com T=remote_smtp defer (113):
No route to host
LOG: 0 MAIN
failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry:
File exists
bp@debian:~$ host mx1.mail.yahoo.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
bp@debian:~$ host mx2.mail.yahoo.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
bp@debian:~$ poff
bp@debian:~$ pon
bp@debian:~$ host mx1.mail.yahoo.com
mx1.mail.yahoo.com has address 67.28.113.11
mx1.mail.yahoo.com has address 64.157.4.78
mx1.mail.yahoo.com has address 67.28.113.10
bp@debian:~$ host mx2.mail.yahoo.com
mx2.mail.yahoo.com has address 64.156.215.8
mx2.mail.yahoo.com has address 67.28.114.35
mx2.mail.yahoo.com has address 67.28.114.36
bp@debian:~$ poff
bp@debian:~$
Script done on Wed Feb 9 08:03:20 2005
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Portion of /var/log/exim/mainlog
2005-02-09 08:38:02 1CyrN0-0000cq-00 ==
rparnes001@yahoo.com R=lookuphost \
defer (-1): host lookup did not complete
2005-02-09 08:38:02 1CyrN0-0000cq-00 failed to open DB
file \
/var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists
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Portion of exim.conf
qualify_domain = debian
local_domains = localhost:debian
smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* smtp.megalink.net
bydns_a"
*@debian
${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
client_send = "^username^password"
login:
driver = plaintext
public_name = LOGIN
client_send = ": username : password"
cram_md5:
driver = cram_md5
public_name = CRAM-MD5
client_name = username
client_secret = password
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