On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
> I manually deleted the files on the exim spool, dialed up, ran exim david. . .@isp.com and entered a test message. Then I ran exim -bp and got:
It may be more useful to use exim -bS since that will allow you to use
an SMTP session and specify a sender address, since root@???
is not your address...
>
> 2m 540 13RdiI-00009j-00 root@???
> root@???
>
> 2m 443 13RdiP-00009x-00 root@???
> davidturetsky@???
>
> Exim, to my surprise, had set up two directories, I and p, under /var/spool/exim/input. The I directory contained the first message:
>
> /etc/init.d/zmailer: /usr/lib/zmailer/router:
> No such file or directory
> with similar entries for the zmailer scheduler and smtpserver
>
> The file in the p directory contained my test message
>
> exim -d9 -M xxxx...xxxx 2>eximoutput continues to look for keyboard input, which I aborted with Ctl-C. eximoutput follows:
>
> Exim version 2.05 debug level 9 uid=0 gid=0
> probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
> Actual local interface address is 127.0.0.1
> Actual local interface address is 63.24.126.191
> set_process_info: 641 2.05 delivering specified messages
> delivering message 13Rdip-00009x-00
> set_process_info: 641 2.05 delivering 13Rdip-00009x-00
> Opened spool file 13Rdip-00009x-00-H
> user=root uid=0 gid=0 sender=root@???
> sender_local=1 resent=no ident=root
> Non-recipients:
> Empty Tree
> ---- End of tree ----
> recipients_count=1
> body_linecount=2 message_linecount=11
> Delivery address list:
> davidturetsky@???
> locked /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
> opened DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: flags=0
> unique = davidturetsky@???
> dbfn_read: key=R:email.msn.com
> dbfn_read: key=R:davidturetsky@???
> davidturetsky@???: queued for routing
> After directing:
> Local addresses:
> Remote addresses:
> Failed addresses:
> Addresses to be routed:
> davidturetsky@???
> Deferred addresses:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> routing davidturetsky@???, domain email.msn.com
> smarthost router called for davidturetsky@???
> route_domain = email.msn.com
> routelist_item = * smtp.email.msn.com bydns_a
> after handling route_lists items, matched = 1
> original hostlist=smtp.email.msn.com options=bydns_a
> expanded hostlist="smtp.email.msn.com" options=bydns_a
>
> Early in my investigation cycle of various MTAs I installed zmailer, but was dissuaded from pursuing it by further readings and the apparent capabilities of exim. I used dpkg to uninstall it, but note similar entries as above during the boot procedure. Could this in some latter day resurrection be screwing things up? How do I remove the remnants from the boot procedure?
>
> David
>
>
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