I do take heart, and appreciate your comments. This 'old dog,' smarter,
wiser, and somewhat slower hasn't ever stopped learning new tricks . . .
hope to add exim to list . . . even whilst for the moment it appears
somewhat formidable
I will momentarily reboot linux partition and implement your suggestions. I
wonder if part of my problem is that I am not invoking exim in daemon mode
at boot time, or some equivalent and so messages simply accumulate in spool,
and get frozen. Please also keep in mind that I am only a user, with dialup
connection. Also, when sending out mail to list, I do not wish for list of
recipients to appear on each copy of post
Now to try again
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
To: "davidturetsky" <davidturetsky@???>
Cc: "exim-users" <exim-users@???>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] New exim user
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
>
> > As for my background, I am a relative unix novice, although I have a
> > computer science degree and over 30 years of programming experience on a
> > number of platforms
>
> Take heart. Old dogs *can* learn new tricks. I started programming in
> the '60s. Unix takes a while to come to terms with. I consider myself a
> Unix newbie - only been there since the early '90s.
>
> > exim generated a bunch of output which it apparently will not redirect
to a
> > file,
>
> If it's -d9 output, it is written to stderr (file descriptor 2), which
> you redirect by
>
> 2>/some/file
>
> (note the magic '2').
>
> > including
> >
> > X-Failed-Recipients
> >
> > *** No recipients
> > ***Bad addresses
> >
> > Process failed(1) when writing error message to root@(frozen)
>
> It is somehow failing to write a delivery error report. This is not an
> error I've ever seen actually happen.
>
> > On the presumption that exim can indeed be intelligently used to send
bulk
> > mail,
>
> Lots of people are using it.
>
> > I reran exim -bt davidturetsky@??? and got:
> >
> > david@
> > <-- davidturetsky@???
> > deliver to david@
> > router = smarthost transport=remote_smtp
> > host smtp.email.msn.com [207.46.181.11]
>
> Was that really "deliver to david@"? That is, no domain? If so,
> something odd is going on. Otherwise, that says it will deliver this
> address to that host. Did you try sending a message to that address? You
> can do that directly from exim, without using elm, by
>
> exim -d9 davidturetsky@???
> Some message
> .
>
> > I've also bought every relevant O'Reilly book
> > related to the topic (don't see any on exim)
>
> I don't know of any books on Exim. I am trying to write one for an as
> yet unannounced publisher. When/if it will appear, I don't know.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
>
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