Re: exim - what is it? (how does it run)
Hi,
I see your frustration.
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:26:38PM -0800, bobg.hahc@gmail.com wrote:
> On Dec 5, 8:00 pm, "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <herrser...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 2007/12/5, Bob Goldberg <bobg.h...@gmail.com>:
> > > What exactly IS exim?
> >
> > > IOW: when I setup sendmail, I'm working with bash scripts.
> >
> > > when I setup an exim conf file - what exactly runs it? perl?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > you should better read a lot =) and make specific questions if you have.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Sergio Cuellar
> >
>
> Sergio,
>
> I appreciate you taking the time to reply to my post.
> For the past 5 days, i've been doing nothing but reading. I find most
> of the doc's to be bloated files, with little in the way of practical
> information.
>
> At the end of all this research, I STILL find myself trying to
> diagnose why my router isn't working; and it's a pretty darn simple
> router at that. getting useful error messages out of exim debug is
> worthless.
>
> So I thought, if I can run a simulation of whatever exim does, maybe I
> could stop in the middle & see just what's going on.
>
> I thought my question was very specific.
> What language is the exim conf file written for?
> is it perl, or is it an exim-specific language.
>
> ie: the command line [from my router] is:
> data = ${lookup{$local_part@$domain}lsearch{/etc/exim4/email-accept}
> {:fail: User unknown }}
>
> what interpreter can I execute this line of code in to see what the
> heck it's doing?
> I can't lookup the proper syntax of the lookup command if I don't know
> the language it's based in.
>
> Here is what exim -debug says:
> lookup yielded: user@domain.com: << this IS a valid email, and
> lsearch FOUND it. so far so good.
> expanded: :fail: User unknown << WHY does my statement expand
> to failure
> file is not a filter file << what file isn't a
> filter file, and what does that really mean?
I do not know you are using exim(3) or exim4, but both comes with ample
documentation.
I am not in a mood to analyse your situation (late night...), but I
recommends you to reads "man 8 exim4" if you are using exim4.
Especially options starting with -b something such as -brw, -bf, -bF,
-bV, ... may be of your interest.
I know exim is too flexible ....
Good luck.
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