Re: [Exim] exim "breaks" after a reboot

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
Date:  
To: Chris Wilson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim "breaks" after a reboot
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Last night, I restarted my computer for the first time in a long time.
> Exim had been working fine ever since I set it up. However, after I
> rebooted, exim has not been able to properly receive mail from other
> domains (and I'm guessing from other machines). I can send okay, and I
> can receive mail from my own machine. I know that this is not a DNS


From a remote machine, can you talk to your mail server?

Try:

telnet mail-server-hostname 25
helo remote-name
mail from:<yourmail@domain>
rcpt to:<yourmail@domain>
data
hello!
.
quit

And if it does work, what does your exim mainlog show? (Do a "tail -f" on
it while you do the above.)

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net
http://bsd.reedmedia.net