Well I tried the script, but it seems to hang in the spool because of some
'temporary error.' Well, here is the results of exim -bp [I edited out
further attempts
which generated similar output]
4h 573 13R1ja-0000DM-00 <>
postmaster@???
4h 721 13R1kK-0000Da-00 <>
root@???
This is the exim main log:
2000-08-21 22:53:00 Start queue run: pid=187
2000-08-21 22:53:01 13R1kK-0000Da-00 == root@??? routing defer
(-32): retry time not reached
2000-08-21 22:53:01 13R1ja-0000DM-00 == postmaster@??? routing
defer (-32): retry time not reached
2000-08-21 22:53:01 End queue run: pid=187
2000-08-21 22:55:07 Start queue run: pid=205
2000-08-21 22:56:27 13R1ja-0000DM-00 == postmaster@??? R=smarthost
defer (-1):
2000-08-21 23:08:00 Start queue run: pid=231
2000-08-21 23:08:00 13R1ja-0000DM-00 == postmaster@??? routing
defer (-32): retry time not reached
2000-08-21 23:08:00 13R1kK-0000Da-00 == root@??? routing defer
(-32): retry time not reached
2000-08-21 23:08:00 End queue run: pid=231
Judging from the messages on the spool, the list is not expanding. Here is
the body and
header:
13R1ja-0000DM-00-H
mail 8 8
<>
966903366 0
-ident mail
-received_protocol local
-body_linecount 5
-localerror
XX
1
postmaster@???
119P Received: from mail by debian with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian))
id 13R1ja-0000DM-00; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:16:06 -0500
057F From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@???>
029T To: postmaster@???
037 Subject: Error in batched SMTP input
039I Message-Id: <E13R1ja-0000DM-00@debian>
038 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:16:06 -0500
Header:
13R1ja-0000DM-00-D
While reading a batch of messages using the -bS option, the
following error was detected:
RCPT TO: cat /etc/exim/lists/free
501 missing or malformed local part (expected word or "<")
The message that contained the error was skipped.
This is the top part of the script:
#!bin/bash
(
echo "HELO davidturetsky"
echo "MAIL FROM: <davidturetsky@???>"
for x in 'cat /etc/exim/lists/free'; do
echo "RCPT TO: $x"
done
echo "DATA"
echo "From: <chiefsob@???>"
echo "Bcc:"
echo "Subject: script test-richsob.com: 21Aug2000"
echo ""
David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave C." <djc@???>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Mailing lists
> >
> > I think the problem here is that David is trying to use exim as an MUA .
. .
> > It sounds more like you simply want to be able to send a message to
> > some list of addresses. A fairly short script could be written which
> > did that . . .
> >
