Re: Exim-Problem: unable to set gid uid [SOLVED]
Gruesse! * Gerhard Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am [10.03.06 16:12]: Weiß jemand eine Lösung? Doch gefunden. /usr/sbin/exim4 war nicht mehr setuid gesetzt. Grrr. Ich frage mich nur: warum, woher? Wobei mir auch nicht bewußt war, daß es das vorher war. Ich war's definitiv nicht (Isch habe nüscht gemacht). Gefunden habe ich's, nachdem ich die Dateien mit dem Inhalt des debs verglichen habe. Es gibt ja irgendeinen daemon, der Änderungen an setuid/setgid überwacht. Kann ich das eigentlich auch im Nachhinein irgendwo noch feststellen? Ich greppe mal /var/log. Eingreifen von Fremdseite kann ich definitiv ausschließen. Gruß Gerhard -- @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't panic! \* Greetings from Gerhard Brauer, \|/ \|/ \* 55411 Bingen am Rhein, Germany @~/ ,. \~@ \*.*** /_( \__/ )_\ |* IM: gerbra at jabber dot org \__U_/|* PGP: 96A08062 ___|*___ -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Exim-problem
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Mikael Bergman wrote: Exim verkar inte må bra, får följande: /etc/cron.daily/exim: failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: File exists run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1 Är det bara att ta bort filerna? Kör Debian unstable och Exim 3. Jepp, bara ta bort, de innehåller tips [1] om hur exim skall hantera medelanden, men om de saknas så är det värsta som kan hända att exim försöker leverera ett brev oftare än vad det var tänkt (inget problem med ett par hundra brev om dagen, ett problem vid ett par tusen brev i minuten :-). Annan fråga, ska jag uppgradera till Exim 4 eller rentav gå över till Postfix? Fördelar/nackdelar? Maskinen i fråga hanterar mail för mig och min familj, ett par hundra mail om dagen (lite listor och sånt). Jag säger nog exim 4, den har en massa trevliga finesser (som support från exim-users listan. [2]), plus att integreringen med exiscan gör spam/virus hanteringen snudd på trivial. Postfix har jag ingen egentlig erfarenhet av (mer en ett föredrag med Wietse Venema då den programmet fortfarande hette VMailer) så det flamkriget håller jag mig utanför (stånde på Exims sida:-) /jp [1] http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_53.html#SEC880 [2] http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040510/071324.html -- jens persson # A chunk was here doing something strange [EMAIL PROTECTED]# with psh etc. It is deleted, because it was Mäster Olofsväg 24 #evident non-sense. S-224 66 LUND;SWEDEN # --ANK # (in linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c)
Re: exim problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2004-04-20 12:08:38 1BFmYn-5Q-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host The funny is I can send to hotmail via my exim smtp but accept to leader.com.my I have some problem. This is normal. Give it time, email is not instant. For whatever reason, it hasn't been able to deliver to leader.com.my yet. - -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhLI7UzgNqloQMwcRAkkEAJ9MP6UMeLPZN/hgZAoyBZV/T2IjNACgpFw+ ogvYXRAz30ov9B/AM3FSvgU= =tId4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem
* Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you made any recent changes? Perhaps it's queueing your mail before sending for some reason? I had this problem, although I recall the delay was nearer a minute. Are you using mutt? In your .muttrc file you need: set sendmail_wait=-1 Mine was previously set to 0. After the change everything was fine. Well, but telling the MUA not to wait for the MTA to deliver the Mails is not a good solution. You can work without waiting, but the mail still needs a minute more on it's way. [...and he is using Mozilla...] Clive Julius -- Julius Plenz, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Surf, Mail, Smile! www.cvmx.de/ http://plenz.com/ Please don't Cc me in your replies, thanks #129455376 3993 FD19 2AF0 E21E 5D74 E963 144C 5EE9 186D CA0D gpg --verbose --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 0x186DCA0D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem
Vineet Kumar wrote: * Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040229 20:49]: Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email message. (It never did this before) It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client. I'd guess exim is trying to do an ident lookup with the client, but the client is silently dropping the ident requests. (Bad packet filter!) 30 seconds smells like a timeout; either ident or reverse DNS. This happens with every client? Is there a packet filter on the server side? Or a DNS misconfiguration? good times, Vineet The 30 seconds wait happens for all clients, and all the clients are behind a NAT firewall. So they are seen as one IP address ( which has an entry in the /etc/hosts file ) The firewalls name appears in the log files so it appears that exim is able to do a reverse look up. There is not packet filter running on the server either. Thank you for the suggestion though. Ivan -- ,###' *##/ Ivan Wills ,*##' Home Page : .*##)Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,###' l##* ,. __ _. _ .*##' /%# ;*##*_*###*#' .*#\ ./###;. /##* /##' ,#*' '#*' '#* *%## *#* '*##* *##. .##' .*#/ |#*# # ##o#''#*#, ,##**##__*#* .#*, ,#*_*# *##' '*#|; *##'`*###*' '###*'##*' ,##'\#*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem
I bounced your message back to the list, to continue the discussion in the public forum. This way, others may be able to provide input into the discussion, and still others may benefit from reading the discussion now and in the public list archives. * Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040302 10:59]: Vineet Kumar wrote: * Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040229 20:49]: Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email message. (It never did this before) It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client. I'd guess exim is trying to do an ident lookup with the client, but the client is silently dropping the ident requests. (Bad packet filter!) 30 seconds smells like a timeout; either ident or reverse DNS. This happens with every client? Is there a packet filter on the server side? Or a DNS misconfiguration? The 30 seconds wait happens for all clients, and all the clients are behind a NAT firewall. So they are seen as one IP address ( which has an entry in the /etc/hosts file ) Okay, well, that's not really a good test for all clients -- by asking that, I was trying to narrow down the problem to either the server or the client. If they're all going through the same connection, it doesn't help narrow it down. The firewalls name appears in the log files so it appears that exim is able to do a reverse look up. Right, it sounds like your DNS lookup is probably fine in this instance. I'd check that the NAT box isn't dropping inbound ident requests. It should instead be responding with TCP RST, as for all closed ports. I'd bet that's where your problem is. good times, Vineet P.S. Your sig is very large. This can be considered bad netiquette. Consider reducing its size; a good guideline is that it shouldn't exceed 4 lines (though I'm often guilty of exceeding this myself). In any case, aim for something that can be measured on the order of lines rather than a half-page. -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.sprintpcs-sucks.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: exim problem
Vineet Kumar wrote: I bounced your message back to the list, to continue the discussion in the public forum. This way, others may be able to provide input into the discussion, and still others may benefit from reading the discussion now and in the public list archives. * Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040302 10:59]: Vineet Kumar wrote: * Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040229 20:49]: Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email message. (It never did this before) It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client. I'd guess exim is trying to do an ident lookup with the client, but the client is silently dropping the ident requests. (Bad packet filter!) 30 seconds smells like a timeout; either ident or reverse DNS. This happens with every client? Is there a packet filter on the server side? Or a DNS misconfiguration? The 30 seconds wait happens for all clients, and all the clients are behind a NAT firewall. So they are seen as one IP address ( which has an entry in the /etc/hosts file ) Okay, well, that's not really a good test for all clients -- by asking that, I was trying to narrow down the problem to either the server or the client. If they're all going through the same connection, it doesn't help narrow it down. The firewalls name appears in the log files so it appears that exim is able to do a reverse look up. Right, it sounds like your DNS lookup is probably fine in this instance. I'd check that the NAT box isn't dropping inbound ident requests. It should instead be responding with TCP RST, as for all closed ports. I'd bet that's where your problem is. good times, Vineet P.S. Your sig is very large. This can be considered bad netiquette. Consider reducing its size; a good guideline is that it shouldn't exceed 4 lines (though I'm often guilty of exceeding this myself). In any case, aim for something that can be measured on the order of lines rather than a half-page. Any suggestions on how to check if the firewall is sending a TCP RST? Ivan -- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _ _ / \ / | | | | /\/ \_| | | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:00:21AM +1100, Ivan Wills wrote: Any suggestions on how to check if the firewall is sending a TCP RST? telnet to the port. If you get Connection refused, then it is. If it times out, it's not. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFARY7HUzgNqloQMwcRAodQAKCkKKJTw1FzM31ZTNh/5WpO+xglaQCeNCO/ zSoWNv2g7jAOtHwL5Q3/MQE= =ABCs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem
* Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040229 20:49]: Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email message. (It never did this before) It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client. I'd guess exim is trying to do an ident lookup with the client, but the client is silently dropping the ident requests. (Bad packet filter!) 30 seconds smells like a timeout; either ident or reverse DNS. This happens with every client? Is there a packet filter on the server side? Or a DNS misconfiguration? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. -- President Thomas Jefferson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: exim problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:36:05PM +1100, Ivan Wills wrote: Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email message. (It never did this before) It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client. Does any one have any suggestions as to why this might occur or suggestions on how to solve the problem? Have you made any recent changes? Perhaps it's queueing your mail before sending for some reason? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQtRVUzgNqloQMwcRAkjjAKCWiv0w3jwtlc2e6GK6CkFv01VbDACgrIU8 VQz8zcJWwOnSYgzuU91siSo= =05tS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem
On (29/02/04 22:12), Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:36:05PM +1100, Ivan Wills wrote: Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email message. (It never did this before) It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client. Does any one have any suggestions as to why this might occur or suggestions on how to solve the problem? Have you made any recent changes? Perhaps it's queueing your mail before sending for some reason? I had this problem, although I recall the delay was nearer a minute. Are you using mutt? In your .muttrc file you need: set sendmail_wait=-1 Mine was previously set to 0. After the change everything was fine. HTH Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [exim] Problem mit smtp-auth
Steffen Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ich benutze exim3.35 und versende alle Mails über compusere - dachte ich wenigstens. Mittlerweile ist mir aufgefallen, das die mails nur verschickt werden, wenn ich mit CS eingewählt bin, ansonsten verschwinden meine mails ohne Warnung oder Meldung im Datennirvana. Viele Provider öffnen ihr SMTP nur, wenn dua uch übr sie drin bist. Offene SMTP-Server würde ich mir als Provider auch nicht mehr erlauben. Zum testen habe ich mal arcor eingetragen, da erhalte ich wenigstens eine Mail: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender ...Relaying denied - only use for SMTP_AUTH Arcor hat also SMTP-AUTH, Compuserver anscheinendn nicht. Es scheint, als würde exim nicht versuchen sich zu authentifizieren. Ich glaube, das ist auch nicht der default. Das hier wird Dir helfen: http://www.linuxer.onlinehome.de/apps/exim.htm natürlich die dort genannten gmx server durch Deien Server ersetzen. Heino -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: [exim] Problem mit smtp-auth
Hallo Steffen, Steffen Hey, 05.01.2004 (d.m.y): ich benutze exim3.35 und versende alle Mails über compuserve - dachte ich wenigstens. Mittlerweile ist mir aufgefallen, das die mails nur verschickt werden, wenn ich mit CS eingewählt bin, ansonsten verschwinden meine mails ohne Warnung oder Meldung im Datennirvana. Zum testen habe ich mal arcor eingetragen, da erhalte ich wenigstens eine Mail: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender ...Relaying denied - only use for SMTP_AUTH Es scheint, als würde exim nicht versuchen sich zu authentifizieren. Im folgenden ist ein Ausschnitt aus meiner exim.conf: #TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION remote_smtp: driver = smtp authenticate_hosts = smtp.compuserve.de An compuserve habe ich mich auch einmal in Sachen AMTP-Auth versucht. Ich habe es dann irgendwann aufgegeben, weil compuserve seine SMTP-Server wohl etwas anders konfiguriert hat. AFAIK scheiterte die Authentifizierung an einem fehlenden oder zu vielen Gleichheitszeichen in der SMTP-Kommunikation zu Beginn der Verbindung. Verbinde Dich mal via telnet auf Port 25 von smtp.compuserve.de, setze ein EHLO hostname ab und vergleiche den Output _akribisch_ mit dem von postman.arcor.de. # authenticate_host = postman.arcor-online.net Kann der denn auch SMTP-Auth? Ich habe dort postman.arcor.de eingetragen, mit dem es auch hinhaut. Gruss, Christian -- Die Situation wird nicht durch die Worte gehoben, sondern diese durch jene. -- Jean Paul pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: exim problem - SMTP error from remote mailer after AUTH PLAIN
Solved. I had to change entries in /etc/email-addresses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mozilla mail can still send emails using [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mozilla Thunderbird cannot and needs to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] like exim. What is the difference between the way mozilla mail does SMTP authentication and mozilla-thunderbird or exim? On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:47:37AM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: For over a year now I've been using fetchmail, procmail, exim 3.36, and mutt to send and receive email. After going away for three days, I return to find that I can no longer send email via exim. I can still send email using mozilla mail. When I try to send a email via mutt and exim, I immediately get a message log: 2004-01-03 23:18:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period *** Frozen (delivery error message) If I try to thaw message and deliver with exim -M, I get: 23:42:24 1Acziv-X5-00 Unfrozen by forced delivery 23:42:24 1Acziv-X5-00 SMTP error from remote mailer after AUTH PLAIN: host outgoing.verizon.net [206.46.170.8]: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 23:42:24 1Acziv-X5-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote mailer after AUTH PLAIN: host outgoing.verizon.net [206.46.170.8]: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 23:42:24 1Acziv-X5-00 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retry timeout exceeded 23:42:24 1Acziv-X5-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: error ignored 23:42:24 1Acziv-X5-00 Completed What exactly does error 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 mean? Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this? I am using sarge. A few days ago an upgrade installed exim_3.36-9.1_i386.deb, but that doesn't seem to be the problem, since reinstalling exim_3.36-8_i386.deb results in the same error. I guess my ISP, Verizon, who is not at all linux friendly, has changed something again although whatever was done doesn't seem to have affected mozilla mail from sending emails. Nothing has changed in exim's configuration in over a year. Pertinent pieces of /etc/exim/exim.conf: ## # TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION # ## remote_smtp: driver = smtp authenticate_hosts = outgoing.verizon.net ## # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # #Specifies how remote addresses are handled # ## send_to_gateway: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = * outgoing.verizon.net byname ## # RETRY CONFIGURATION # ## # Domain Error Retries # -- - --- * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h ## # AUTHENTICATION CONFIGURATION # ## # Setup for client side authentication to one host for multiple users, # each with a separate password: To make the lookup function work # set up a file, /etc/exim/smtp-passwd, of uid's, usernames and passwords. # /etc/exim/smtp-passwd is owned by mail.mail so that passwords are not # stored in a world readable file. The format of the file is: # # uid1:^username1^password1 # uid2:^username2^password2 # etc. # # where usernameX and passwordX are the login name and password on the # host, and uidX is the user's uid on the local computer. plain: driver = plaintext public_name = PLAIN client_send = ${lookup{$originator_uid}lsearch{/etc/exim/smtp-passwd}{$value}} -- Jerome signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: exim problem - SMTP error from remote mailer after AUTH PLAIN
| What exactly does error 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 mean? The 334 is the response code from the server. The data after it is base64 encoded and decodes to Username:. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:03:21PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: | Solved. I had to change entries in /etc/email-addresses from | [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aha. I guess when the server didn't like the username/passwd pair you sent it decided to switch from AUTH PLAIN to AUTH LOGIN. However, exim wasn't expecting an interactive prompt for the username and password, so it stopped processing right then. (BTW, AUTH LOGIN is not actually defined in any standard) | Mozilla mail can still send emails using | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mozilla Thunderbird cannot and needs to use | [EMAIL PROTECTED] like exim. What is the difference between the way | mozilla mail does SMTP authentication and mozilla-thunderbird or exim? I don't know, use ethereal to see what is actually being sent across the wire. Different server, perhaps? -D -- He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. --Jim Elliot www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: exim - problem
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:36:35PM +0200, jazz wrote: hello all ! Nie wiem co sie stalo , ale od trzech dni nie moge wysylac maila z konta na moim serwie, do mnie przychodza wszystkie . W logach mam caly czas np : [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-42) : retry time not reached gdzie lezy problem ?? Wyżej. Poszukaj pierwszego komunikatu dotyczącego tego maila. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216
Re: exim Problem?
Am 06.01.2003 09:07:56, Ulrich Wiederhold schrieb: immer mal wieder bleiben bei mir einige Mails im System hängen (exim), warum auch immer. Wenn ich diese Emails mit exim -Mt auftaue und per exim -q wieder abschicke, dann bekomme ich von meinem Provider folgende Fehlermeldung: [...] SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mail.t-link.de [194.97.37.23]: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my = list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Hast Du mal versucht, die Mail ueber ein anderes SMTP-Relay loszuwerden? Mir scheint, da ist in Exim irgendwas fehlkonfiguriert. Was? Muss nicht sein. Man darf ruhig auch einmal in Betracht ziehen, dass Rechner auf der anderen Seite der Leitung falsch konfiguriert sind. Was hat das mit den rcpthosts aus sich? (Was ist das? Kann mich nicht erinnern, sowas konfiguriert zu haben). Das wuesste ich jetzt gerne, was Du da konfiguriert haben willst. rcpthosts=Recipient host=Empfaengerrechner. Der Provider verwendet smtp afet pop. Da ich aber alle 10 Minuten meine Emails abrufe und dann 30 Minuten lang Emails verschicken kann, sollte ich dadurch doch eigentlich keine Probleme bekommen... So ist dieses System gedacht. Bietet denn der Provider neben POP3 auch POP3S an? Der Dienst laeuft ueber Port 995 und bietet verschluesselte Mailuebertragung an, so dass Du auf die SMTP-AFTER-POP-Methode verzichten koenntest. Gruss Peter Blancke -- Nachtwaechter ist der Wahnsinn, weil er wacht... -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Exim: problem mit mail loop(?)
* Marc Schiffbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-01-03 10:38]: Da klemmt also eine Mail, die an einen Leeren String als mailbox gerichtet ist. 97k Gross. Sie besteht eigendlich nur aus Fehlermeldungen (s.u.) und hat keinen erkennbaren ursprünglichen Inhalt. Die mail selber hört auch scheinbar mitten in einer Fehlermeldung auf, sodass man den Ursprung nicht direkt erkennen kann. Das die Mail mittendrin aufhört liegt wohl an der return_size_limit Einstellung von Exim, der schneidet die einfach ab. Aus der Exim-Doku: return_size_limit Type: integer Default: 100K This option sets a limit in bytes on the size of messages that are returned to senders. If it is set to zero there is no limit. If the body of any message that is to be included in an error report is greater than the limit, it is truncated, and a comment pointing this out is added at the top. The actual cutoff may be greater than the value given, owing to the use of buffering for transferring the message in chunks. The idea is just to save bandwidth on those undeliverable 15-megabyte messages. If either the global or generic transport message_size_limit is set, the value of return_size_limit should be somewhat smaller. Ansonsten sieht das für mich so aus, als wüsste amavis nicht an welchen User er seine Fehlermeldungen zustellen soll, aber da ich amavis nicht nutze ist das nur ne Vermutung. HTH Jens -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Exim: problem mit mail loop(?)
* Jens Schuessler schrieb am 04.01.03 um 11:57 Uhr: * Marc Schiffbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-01-03 10:38]: Da klemmt also eine Mail, die an einen Leeren String als mailbox gerichtet ist. 97k Gross. Sie besteht eigendlich nur aus Fehlermeldungen (s.u.) und hat keinen erkennbaren ursprünglichen Inhalt. Die mail selber hört auch scheinbar mitten in einer Fehlermeldung auf, sodass man den Ursprung nicht direkt erkennen kann. Das die Mail mittendrin aufhört liegt wohl an der return_size_limit Einstellung von Exim, der schneidet die einfach ab. Aus der Exim-Doku: return_size_limit Type: integer Default: 100K [exim doku snipped] Guter Hinweis ;). Das könnte ich mal erhöhen, bis ich die ursprüngliche Nachricht sehe. Von der in der Doku erwähnten Hinweis auf das Abgeschnittensein der Mail habe ich aber nichts bemerkt... naja. Ansonsten sieht das für mich so aus, als wüsste amavis nicht an welchen User er seine Fehlermeldungen zustellen soll, aber da ich amavis nicht nutze ist das nur ne Vermutung. Mails, die amavis erstellt, wenn er nen Virus gefunden hat, kommen aber definitiv an. aus /etc/amavisd.conf: # who notification reports are sent from $mailfrom = 'postmaster'; # who quarantined viruses appear to be sent from (envelope sender) #$mailfrom_quarantine = $mailfrom; # same as for notifications $mailfrom_quarantine = undef; # use original sender # whom to send admin virus notifications # - catchall if %mailto lookup hash does not find a match (e.g. it # is empty) # and for backwards compatibility $mailto = 'virusalert'; $mailfrom_quarantine kann eigendlich nichts damit zu tun haben, da die loop mails unabhängig und vor allem öfter auftreten als es einen Virus gibt. Gruss -Marc -- begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs I am a signature virus. Distribute me until the bitter end -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: exim problem?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 December 2002 5:58 pm, Eric R Cheney wrote: Any ideas what is wrong? It would help if there were some details - like the relevent parts of /etc/exim/exim.conf - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/PD0uFHxcV2FFoIRAuWkAKCMpCTyQXvpIOjCrVftWGDo1v/saACaA2be 8vazW+RBzZw96vDccuImTNQ= =fcXR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem?
On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 21:15:29 +, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 December 2002 5:58 pm, Eric R Cheney wrote: Any ideas what is wrong? It would help if there were some details - like the relevent parts of /etc/exim/exim.conf Someone already mentioned (replied off-list, and thanks) that exim is for sending mail; so my problem isn't with exim. So I guess my problem is with a imapd server I have a uw-imapd running, and that works internally (i.e. inside the home I can use mozilla to read mail from the mail server via another internal box). But again, sending mail directly to the mail box from an external host won't work (though other tcp stuff works like ftp, http, etc). Eventually get an e-mail from the external sending host failed MX lookup. So what do I need to setup so that mail is received directly? Again, fetchmail will work, but I can't get it directly sent (I have a domain name, etc.). And, what tcp/ip port should I have my dsl/router set up for forwarding to the mail server? Thank you for your thoughts. -- Eric Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sociostat.org/eric/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 December 2002 4:53 pm, Eric Cheney wrote: On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 21:15:29 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 5:58 pm, Eric R Cheney wrote: Any ideas what is wrong? It would help if there were some details - like the relevent parts of /etc/exim/exim.conf Someone already mentioned (replied off-list, and thanks) that exim is for sending mail; so my problem isn't with exim. Now I re-read your original query - I understand a bit more of what you are trying to do. I don't think its exim, but also I think you may be confusing several things. A brief explanation about how mail works. When someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] they have an MTA (like exim - but at their end) which attempts to find who is dealing with mail for yourdomain.com. It does this via a nameserver (dns) lookup for yourdomain.com and ask the nameserver for the MX record. This tells which of (possibly several - they have priorities) ip addresses to contact (via port 25). In your case, I it appears this is soc.umass.edu. In which case they get told is either ponzi.oit.umass.edu (128.119.166.18) or supai.oit.umass.edu (128.119.175.6) - but I assume these actually work - so are you setting up a domain name for yourself? In my case, doing an MX lookup on chandlerfamily.org.uk will point you at someone who is hosting the domain name servers for my domain and mail goes via them, to another name I have asked for mail to be forwarded - my isp. I get the mail from my ISP using fetchmail (using pop3), which sends it to my local copy of exim (via port 25) which then puts it onto a disk on my local server (I could deliver it directly to my local box if I wanted to). I then use courier-imap to provide pop3 and imap services to my whole family who use various mail programs to read the mail. The return journey for mail is similar. My mail program (kmail) sends it to my local copy of exim via port 25. It could (but doesn't) deliver it directly, doing MX lookups etc, but instead sends it on to my isp which then queues it there and then does MX lookups on the address it is trying to send the mail to. So I guess my problem is with a imapd server I have a uw-imapd running, ? Which imapd server, I don't think that comes it to it. and that works internally (i.e. inside the home I can use mozilla to read mail from the mail server via another internal box). But again, sending mail directly to the mail box from an external host won't work (though other tcp stuff works like ftp, http, etc). Eventually get an e-mail from the external sending host failed MX lookup. This sounds like a nameserver problem - can you understand the issues from the text I have written above So what do I need to setup so that mail is received directly? Again, fetchmail will work, but I can't get it directly sent (I have a domain name, etc.). And, what tcp/ip port should I have my dsl/router set up for forwarding to the mail server? You need to get your domain hosting company to point the MX records at the address of your mail box. However, beware - if you have a network behind the dsl/router it probably has private addresses and the router is doing address translation (I half assumed that is what you meand when you say you forwared port25) - in which case you want to set the MX records to point to the ip address of the address translation box, and then tell that where to forward port25. Whether this is a good idea is debatably. The rest of the internet expects MX machines to be available all the time - if you power your box down it may be better to do what I do and forward through your isp, and use fetchmail to get the mail before sending via exim. Of course of your ip address varies because your dsl provided allocates ip addresses dynamically then you will have problems. Thank you for your thoughts. I hope this helps - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/QztuFHxcV2FFoIRAoqDAJsGNa7RXQh8jzk4zCInm3X6eIY6BQCdHj2j 48AVVy7j6jvvUfWbk3ENFL4= =EFpq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem solved. how do i configure mozilla?
Sandip P Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now, i changed smtp server in my mozilla to 192.168.100.21 - my machine's ip address. it is unable to deliver message. the error i get is: an error occured while sending mail. the mail server responded: relayin to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator. (failed to find hostname from ip address). please check mail receipients and try again You don't allow relaying for your computer. Using localhost (or 127.0.0.1) instead of 192.168.100.21 as your SMTP-server in mozilla might fix it. But you should take a look at everything related to relay in the config file and the exim docs anyway to understand what this is about. Hint: you probably allow relay for localhost but not for 192.168.100.21. Since you address the server not on its local address but the one bound to its NIC (network interface card), the mail doesn't seem to come from localhost (127.0.0.1). curiously, mail can be sent using mail address command. It uses exim directly, not through SMTP. Ciao, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem solved. how do i configure mozilla?
Sandip == Sandip P Deshmukh Sandip writes: Sandip Shyamal Prasad wrote: Sandip == Sandip P Deshmukh Sandip writes: Sandip an error occured while sending mail. the mail server Sandip responded: relayin to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sandip prohibited by administrator. (failed to find hostname from Sandip ip address). please check mail receipients and try again I have not seen this one, but most likely you need to look in exim.conf and look at the options that have the word 'relay' in Sandip got the gist. how do i solve it? do i have to modify my Sandip exim.conf again? well, now i am kind of used to it! Well, you will have to investigate a little. Is host_accept_relay set to 127.0.0.1 : 1? What is your email address in Mozilla set to? If I use my public email address my exim set up seems to work for Mozilla. Incidentally, I have never use Mozilla as my email client before, and I truly surprised that it does not support a native UNIX (sendmail) interface Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem solved. how do i configure mozilla?
Jens Grivolla wrote: Sandip P Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: an error occured while sending mail. the mail server responded: relayin to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator. (failed to find hostname from ip address). please check mail receipients and try again You don't allow relaying for your computer. Using localhost (or 127.0.0.1) instead of 192.168.100.21 as your SMTP-server in mozilla might fix it. perfect, sir! if the list is getting this message, we are bang on the spot! But you should take a look at everything related to relay in the config file and the exim docs anyway to understand what this is about. Hint: you probably allow relay for localhost but not for 192.168.100.21. Since you address the server not on its local address but the one bound to its NIC (network interface card), the mail doesn't seem to come from localhost (127.0.0.1). i did. quite informative. thanx - sandip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem solved. how do i configure mozilla?
Shyamal Prasad wrote: Sandip an error occured while sending mail. the mail server Sandip responded: relayin to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sandip prohibited by administrator. (failed to find hostname from Sandip ip address). please check mail receipients and try again I have not seen this one, but most likely you need to look in exim.conf and look at the options that have the word 'relay' in Sandip got the gist. how do i solve it? do i have to modify my Sandip exim.conf again? well, now i am kind of used to it! Well, you will have to investigate a little. Is host_accept_relay set to 127.0.0.1 : 1? yes. was a goof up on my part not to get it! i think i got confused between 192.168.100.21 and 127.0.0.1!! i have set it right. and hopefully, the mails are going now! What is your email address in Mozilla set to? If I use my public email address my exim set up seems to work for Mozilla. Incidentally, I have never use Mozilla as my email client before, and I truly surprised that it does not support a native UNIX (sendmail) interface i think i should be posting these queries to mozilla newsgroup. Cheers! Shyamal thanx again - sandip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem solved. how do i configure mozilla?
Shyamal Prasad wrote: Sandip == Sandip P Deshmukh Sandip writes: Sandip an error occured while sending mail. the mail server Sandip responded: relayin to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sandip prohibited by administrator. (failed to find hostname from Sandip ip address). please check mail receipients and try again Boy, I just finishing composing one message to you and there is another question ;-) I have not seen this one, but most likely you need to look in exim.conf and look at the options that have the word 'relay' in them. Your use of SMTP from your own host to exim on your own host is showing up as a relay. Most likely because of the way /etc/hosts or your local DNS server has been set up, exim thinks that the IP from which Mozilla is delivering mail is not the same as the IP + hostname that exim is running on. So it will not relay it on (which is A Good Thing). Cheers! Shyamal got the gist. how do i solve it? do i have to modify my exim.conf again? well, now i am kind of used to it! :) - sandip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim problem solved. how do i configure mozilla?
Sandip == Sandip P Deshmukh Sandip writes: Sandip an error occured while sending mail. the mail server Sandip responded: relayin to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sandip prohibited by administrator. (failed to find hostname from Sandip ip address). please check mail receipients and try again Boy, I just finishing composing one message to you and there is another question ;-) I have not seen this one, but most likely you need to look in exim.conf and look at the options that have the word 'relay' in them. Your use of SMTP from your own host to exim on your own host is showing up as a relay. Most likely because of the way /etc/hosts or your local DNS server has been set up, exim thinks that the IP from which Mozilla is delivering mail is not the same as the IP + hostname that exim is running on. So it will not relay it on (which is A Good Thing). Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim Problem
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Rainer Ellinger wrote: Den genauen Grund nochmal in /var/log/exim/rejectlog nachlesen und ggf. einen der relay_domain-Parameter anpassen. Ob das allerdings der richtige Konfigurationsweg ist, möchte ich damit nicht sagen. Dazu sind Deine Infos zu dünn. also in der rejectlog steht nix weiter drinn. mehr infos als diese meldung habe ich leider nicht. in den logdatein erscheint nix. bzw was ist das genau und wo muss ich nachlesen auf der eximseite? Die volle Doku findest Du mit zless /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz Dort gibt es auch eine Datei OptionLists.txt.gz, die einen kompakten Überblick über Parameter und Optionen gibt. da gugg ich jetzt nochmal nach ... thx mfg olli -- Oliver Dumat| NetKom GmbH - Netze Kommunikationssysteme PGP-KeyID: 0xC85A73F5 | Gewerbepark Mockritz Tel: 03431/589-0| 04720 Großweitzschen Fax: 03431/589-399 | www.netkom-sachsen.de -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Exim problem
* This one time, at band camp, Agics Balazs said: Hi all, I want to compile exom 3.33 on my Debian (Woddy) box, but it fails. The message is: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb collect 2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [exim_dmbuild] Error 1 Please help me! I would suggest you look at getting the package libdb2 and libdb2-dev (Berkeley v2 Database Libraries) which exim needs (note you may need V3 for exim 3.33 - I don't know...) I'm assuming you have a reason for not wanting to use the precomiled packages (since you've gone for 3.33 and SID is only at 3.22) HTH Greeno -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: Exim problem
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:09PM +0200, Mateusz Mazur wrote: Hi. It wasn't good idea to put all questions in one letter. So know I post it single. I will be very great ful fot any help. Q: How should I configure exim to relay mails. People from my office want send mails to anywhere and from anywhere (not only from office) and receive mails from anybody. eximconf. When it says are there any networks of local machines you want to relay mail for say oh, yeah. Altough a nice thoughtful answer along the lines of 192.168.1.0/24 will probably get you there quicker. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization. pgpe4NiE7eRxA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: exim problem
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:29:33AM -0800, Mark Symonds wrote Hello, I have 118 msgs sitting in /var/spool/exim/input That are frozen, all with the same error: 11oG5a-0006tw-00 :: 1999-11-17 17:10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lookuphost router deferred: lowest numbered MX record points to local host *** Frozen *** The master file in /var/named for this domain is identical to three other domains on the box which are happily accepting mail, and exim.conf does have local_domains = DOMAIN.NAME. Any ideas? Exim version is 2.05 #1. Exim is treating the messages as if they *don't* appear in local_domains, so first check: - Are you running Exim as a daemon? If so, make sure you stop restart it. - Is the spelling really really right, and the local_domains setting in the right section (near the top) of exim.conf, and do you really have only one local_domains setting? - Are you sure Exim is using the config file you think it's using? You can verify that Exim is reading the correct value for local_domains by running as root # exim -bP local_domains There is a generic router option called self that you can use to force Exim to accept itself as an MX for domains not listed in local_domains, but you shouldn't use it - find and fix the problem you have, rather than working around it and introducing a potential DOS weakness. Finally, once a message is frozen it stays that way until you change it (unless you have used the auto_thaw option in exim.conf), so even once things are working OK you'll have to use something like # exim -M message-id to place them back in the delivery queue. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
RE: Exim Problem (I think....)
On 30-Jun-99 Peter Ludwig wrote: I'm running slink (upgraded to potato), and I seem to be having a minor problem with exim. I cannot receive any email using the system under linux. I am running exim fetchmail Exim version 3.0-2, fetchmail () Before I upgraded exim, everything worked really well, now (since 3.0-1 actually) it's not working. The latest exim will not work with fetchmail (at least not for me). This has been discussed on this mailing list a couple of days ago, and also on the exim mailing list. It has to do with IPV6 support, and there is a fix out, but this means you will have to compile exim from source. If you prefer to use the exim deb, you will probably have to downgrade to 2.11 and put it on hold until a deb comes along with the fix applied. Remember to replace /etc/exim.conf with the one from before the upgrade after having downgraded to 2.11. --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Re: Exim Problem (I think....)
Well, it works for me. I'm using kernel 2.2.10. When setting up fetchmail, I couldn't get it to work so, after reading these posts, I downgraded to slink exim (2.05). Then I realized I had fetchmailrc wrong and re-installed exim 3.02-1. It's working fine. My kernel is compiled without IPV6 support. Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30-Jun-99 Peter Ludwig wrote: I'm running slink (upgraded to potato), and I seem to be having a minor problem with exim. I cannot receive any email using the system under linux. I am running exim fetchmail Exim version 3.0-2, fetchmail () Before I upgraded exim, everything worked really well, now (since 3.0-1 actually) it's not working. The latest exim will not work with fetchmail (at least not for me). This has been discussed on this mailing list a couple of days ago, and also on the exim mailing list. It has to do with IPV6 support, and there is a fix out, but this means you will have to compile exim from source. If you prefer to use the exim deb, you will probably have to downgrade to 2.11 and put it on hold until a deb comes along with the fix applied. Remember to replace /etc/exim.conf with the one from before the upgrade after having downgraded to 2.11. --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- D.Damian
Re: Exim Problem (I think....)
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 06:47:38AM -0400, Didi Damian wrote: Well, it works for me. I'm using kernel 2.2.10. When setting up fetchmail, I couldn't get it to work so, after reading these posts, I downgraded to slink exim (2.05). Then I realized I had fetchmailrc wrong and re-installed exim 3.02-1. It's working fine. My kernel is compiled without IPV6 support. I can back this up. I'm also running kernel 2.2.10(-ac5) with no IPv6 support, and Exim (3.02-1) is working fine here also. Having seen the recent problems with Exim being posted to the list, I thought that was my problem when my outgoing mail stopped working the other day, however after some poking around I discovered it was in fact Mutt looking for sendmail (and failing) that was my problem. This is a known bug in Mutt, and the solution is listed in the Debian bug database with the bug report. -- Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim Problem
Do you have this in /etc/host.conf? order hosts,bind this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named (or at least this is what I think it should do :) Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't work, it look to me like exim and smail (which I have tried on my second machine) as just doing a DNS lookup and ignoring the /etc/host.conf file. I have configured both exim and smail using the debian config programs. and selected option 1, internet mail, as the other options don't seem to take into account if you are not connected to the internet, I think the problem is that my nameserver is just a cacheing name server and so doesn't do reverse lookups, Why shouldn't a cache DNS server cache reverse lookup? Have you tried this? I'm asking this because I usually work in closed domains (i.e. no connection to the net) so I have to build my DNS server and don't use cache server that much. well I have finally fixed this problem, I had to configure a full namserver as for some reason, a cacheing nameserver just didn't so the job, I even tried smail to see if it was a exim problem and the same thing happened. Could this be the problem or should I reconfigre exim/smail using the config progam? If I reconfigure them using the config program which option should I use? Well, I don't know, sorry. I've just started playing with exim, and as you see (my msg to the list) I have my problems with it too. There doesn't seem to be a lot of exim expert these days. :( Sorry I can't be much help -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question ||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED]No is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim Problem
Hi all, I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway to tell exim that if the DNS hostname lookup fails then to use the hosts table? Do you have this in /etc/host.conf? order hosts,bind this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named (or at least this is what I think it should do :) Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't work, it look to me like exim and smail (which I have tried on my second machine) as just doing a DNS lookup and ignoring the /etc/host.conf file. I have configured both exim and smail using the debian config programs. and selected option 1, internet mail, as the other options don't seem to take into account if you are not connected to the internet, I think the problem is that my nameserver is just a cacheing name server and so doesn't do reverse lookups, Could this be the problem or should I reconfigre exim/smail using the config progam? If I reconfigure them using the config program which option should I use? Regards Graham -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question ||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED]No is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]