RE: FW: Sending Email from script
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:15 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: FW: Sending Email from script
please don't top-post.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:26:40PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> I tried changing the option below and restarted Exim. That doesn't
> seem to have made any difference in the log file.
might be my bad. the proper line is
QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS='-d'
^
but the line should already be in your /etc/default/exim4 and just needs
editing.
BTW, I just tested it on my mail server and it promptly produces copious
output to stdout when you /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
You are correct, the line was in my config. I tried adding the "S" on
the end, that didn't make any difference. When I do a
"/etc/init.d/exim4 restart" it tells me it is restarting then drops me
back to the command line.
> I setup Evolution, and set it to use our exchange box as a smtp
> server, that worked fine. When I set the smtp server to that box, I
> get a
> "172.16.0.39 Connection Refused" error. 172.16.0.39 is the IP of the
> server.
now I'm confused. first you say it works fine and then you say it
doesn't. please elaborate.
That was a typo on my part. What I meant to say was that when I used
the exchange server as my SMTP server I could send mail fine through
Evolution. However when used the IP address of the linux server, I got
a connection refused error.
> I also JUST noticed that when I do a "ps aux | grep exim" there aren't
> any exim processes running! So I went to \etc\init.d\ and run
> "./exim4 start". It reports that it is starting the MTA... No error
> messages are reported. However doing a "ps" still doesn't show any
exim processes!
> There are no errors in syslog related to exim not starting that I can
> see.
wah? what does the log show just after attempting to start it?
The exim4 log shows several entries stating such and such message is
frozen.
please provide output of
dpkg -l exim\* | awk '/^ii/ { print $2, $3 }'
Running this command gives me the following:
exim4 4.63-17
exim4-base 4.63-17
exim4-config 4.63-17
exim4-daemon-light 4.63-17
also please provide /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf (you can strip the
comments.
That conf file contains:
dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='student-test.ucwv.edu'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
Should the dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1' be the "real" ip address?
Also, I've set Outlook to indent emails that I reply to, but it isn't
doing it. I either need to fix it, or find another client. Sorry if my
emails are hard to read, I'm working fixing that....
On top of that, I'm a little unsure of where I should put my replies?
Once I get the original email to be indented, is it "OK" to post replies
in the body of the email I'm replying to? I'm a little rusty on my
"posting to mailing list" etiquette.
Nathan
thanks
A
>
> whoops, sent this to Nathan personally instead of thelist. sorry...
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:07:06PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> > I changed the IP to 127.0.0.1. That sill didn't help.
> >
> > Here are the contents of the log file:
> >
> > student-test:/etc# more /var/log/exim4/mainlog
> > 2007-07-18 08:12:42 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5024, -q30m,
> > listening for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
> > 2007-07-18 08:12:42 Start queue run: pid=5025
> > 2007-07-18 08:12:42 End queue run: pid=5025
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:29 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5404, -q30m,
> > listening for SMTP on [172.16.0.39]:25
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:29 Start queue run: pid=5405
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:29 End queue run: pid=5405
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU <= nathan@student-test.ucwv.edu
> > U=nathan P=local S=401
> > 2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU ** myaddress@ucwv.edu:
> > Unrouteable address
>
> well... I don't know what to tell you. Couple things you could try.
> First, can you get to the net from this machine? I know its basic, but
> sometimes...
>
> Also, edit /etc/default/exim4 and put a QUEUERUNNEROPTION='-d' in
> there, restart exim4 and look at all the pretty output and see if you
> can see why its not routeing the address.
>
> also look at man exim as there are a number of options for running
> exim in various debugging modes that might help.
>
> I've never had a problem with exim... it mostly just works for me in a
> number of configurations, so without sitting down and seeing _exactly_
> how its configured, I'm out of ideas.
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