Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-18 Thread stryker9603
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Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-17 Thread stryker9603
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Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-17 Thread Ted Cooper
stryker9603 wrote: hey guys. I was able to get the configs back. no prob. I can start stop exim. all is good there. now I dont know why I cant send a message. I have looked every where on how to fix my problem. I would imagine I have something messed up in the config but I can not for

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Heiko Schlittermann wrote: stryker9603 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mi 02 Apr 2008 18:49:23 CEST): after that I ran dpkg -r exim4 and dpkg-p exim4 then reinstalled exim4. upon reinstall it did not go through configuration like it should. and It did not make the directory /etc/exim4 so I created

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-07 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
stryker9603 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mi 02 Apr 2008 18:49:23 CEST): after that I ran dpkg -r exim4 and dpkg-p exim4 then reinstalled exim4. upon reinstall it did not go through configuration like it should. and It did not make the directory /etc/exim4 so I created that directory and You

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:37:34 +0200, Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Haber wrote: You need to purge and reinstall exim4-config. Doing so might be a challenge since uninstalling the MTA will deinstall half of your system. What about dpkg --purge --force-all allexim4packageshere, then

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:49:23 -0700 (PDT), stryker9603 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after that I ran dpkg -r exim4 and dpkg-p exim4 then reinstalled exim4. upon reinstall it did not go through configuration like it should. and It did not make the directory /etc/exim4 so I created that directory and

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:37:53 +0200, Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, it will give you a simple configuration menu. That's not going to work since the OP blew away the files that are used to build the actual configuration. No source, no object code

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-05 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Haber wrote: You need to purge and reinstall exim4-config. Doing so might be a challenge since uninstalling the MTA will deinstall half of your system. What about dpkg --purge --force-all allexim4packageshere, then an apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy? smime.p7s Description:

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-03 Thread Renaud Allard
stryker9603 wrote: Hello all newbee here. I hve searched forums and google and cant find any answers. so please be gentle. currently running debian only as a web server. need exim to send a messege every so often. I thought I had configured incorrectly so I ran apt-get remove

[exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-03 Thread stryker9603
used this forum post before so I am not sure that I would be able to find this thread again. if posting to this thread please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] also. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/blew-away-exim-config-and-cant-send-mail-tp16447441p16447441.html Sent from

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-03 Thread Graham Christensen
I have an original exim4.tar of the configuration. I did the same thing the first time I setup my mail server and couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get it back. From then on, I've always made a backup. If you cannot fix it otherwise, send me an email in private and I'll attach them

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-03 Thread Rejo Zenger
++ 02/04/08 09:49 -0700 - stryker9603: installed exim4 again. Long story short is I am missing some config files and I cant get exim to restart by typing in /etc/init.d/exim4 restart. Apart from running dpkg-reconfigure on the exim4 package, as suggested by someone else, you may install