[Exim] New exim user

I am trying to make first use of exim to handle a list application and have queued a few messages using elm and exim as a test. These messages and a bunch of mail from vim were sitting seemingly stuck at /var/spool/exim. I deleted the vim messages and following notes from the exim website, issued:

/usr//sbin/exim -d9 -M 13MhR6-00007I-00 and got the following output:

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remote_smpt transport entered
davidturetsky@???
locked /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
opened DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: flags=0
dbfn_read key=T:msn.com: 207.46.176.152
no retry record
msn.com [207.46.176.152] status=usable
delivering 13MhR6-00007I-00 to msn.com [207.46.176.152] (davidturetsky@???)
set_process_info: 204 2.05 delivering 13MhR6-00007I-00 to msn.com [207.46.176.152] (davidturetsky@???)
Connecting to msn.com [207.46.176.152] ...

and then the system seemingly is sitting there accepting tty input

Would be grateful for any assistance in getting exim operational

David