Re: [Exim] Re: Still queuing mail for no reason

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: patrick
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Still queuing mail for no reason
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 patrick@??? wrote:

> But I have a permanent connection and exim is quing mails that I want to
> send out. For example, this mail will only be send if I log on a s root
> on another terminal and then exim -qf.


Run a definitive test:

exim -d9 some@ddress
<enter a message, may even be null>
.

Then the debugging output will hopefully tell you why the message is not
being delivered.

> Think I'll take a stock exim.conf from another Debian box and see if
> that works. Perhaps mine is missing some essential element.


Or perhaps it's got "queue_only" set?

Or, for some perverse reason, the MUA you use to send messages is
calling exim with the -odq option.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.