On Tue 07 Apr 2026 at 15:18:47 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 01:46:03PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 13:25:01 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > I don't think I found the problem. I configured exim without
> > > changing the visible domain name, but this had no effect on the
> > > frozen messages. I don't believe needed to reboot because
> > > reconfiguring exim restarts it. Perhaps reinstalling exim4 from
> > > scratch on both drives would work. But not sure why.
> > >
> > > Reonfituringf exim meant that I could not longer send mail, and
> > > so reverted to my old conifuguration that hides the domain name.
> >
> > You don't appear to have a firm grasp of how your MTA is configured
> > at all.
> >
> > Start by looking at which domains you've declared to be local.
> > Does this include both "histomat.net" and "iskra.histomat.net"?
> > Or just one of them? Or neither?
>
> Is local domain name the same as what exim configuration calls
> system mail name? In the field put Iskra@hstomatlnet. There is no
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Most native speakers can figure out what you mean even though your
posts are full of typos. But when it comes to text that the machine
is expected to read and write, could you copy and paste?
> place for an additinoal domain name. Pehaps it can be provided in
> answer to other distinations. Is that so? I usually leave blank.
>
> > Next, look at how your "postmaster" is configured. Is it an alias?
> > Is it a real user? If it's an alias, what address does it point to?
>
> Exim configuration does not provide for identifying who is
> postmaster.
Does it not?
$ grep -c /etc/aliases /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.config
/var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.config:2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.postinst:8
$
> I do create a /root/.forward file with my simple
> address [email protected] in it. I suppose that makes me
> postmaster, but this is not what you are getting at.
Typically, aliases looks something like:
$ cat /etc/aliases
# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
webmaster: root
www: root
ftp: root
abuse: root
noc: root
security: root
root: foo
$
AIUI, foo would usually default to the first user (1000). The reason
for that last line is so that root doesn't have to run a mail client.
On Tue 07 Apr 2026 at 16:41:09 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
> I find there is a /etc/mailname file which holds my mail name as
> Iskra.histomat.net,
That would normally match what you put in the field above my first
comment here.
> There is also a /etc/exim4/alias file, but it is empty. In any
> cxase, when I reinstall exim I also delete the /etc/exim4 directory.
That's not a file I've come across. The normal file is /etc/aliases,
presumably because that's what sendmail uses, which most things copy.
> The postmaster file holds my two email addressses. I commented them,
> but the frozen message continue.
I don't know what a "postmaster file" is. Can you elaborate?
It might help to post your /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf file
as some of your earlier answers didn't seem very clear (like the
domain names).
Cheers,
David.
