RE: [Exim] Re: Mail relay problems

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Andy Coy wrote:

> All of that data for host_accept relay on one line, I hope, and
> presumably just wrapped to fit in this message.
>
> Try running:
>
> exim -bP host_accept_relay
>
> and paste us the output..
>
>
> post# sendmail -bP host_accept_relay
> host_accept_relay =
> localhost:127.0.0.1:212.1.128.0/19:62.6.186.226:80.40/13:212.74.96.0/19:212.
> 159.128.0/18:62.64.128.0/19:212.139.32.0/19:212.139.128.0/17:213.123.76.0/23
> :62.7.125.0/24:62.7.126.0/24:62.7.127.0/24:80.225/16
> post#
>
> Exim 3.13 for some reason on my box has been linked to sendmail command. If
> you type exim, command not found. But anyway, it seems to me everything is
> there as it should be.
>

By the way, see how in my response, my mail client (and most everyone
elses) automatically marked what you said with ">" characters, so that
it is easy to follow the conversation? I'm not sure what mail program
you are using, but it probably has an option to do something like this
as well. You might want to find it and turn it on.

It is normally standard to replace the sendmail binary with a symlink to
the exim binary, since many local mail-generating programs assume to
call 'sendmail' by default.. Since exim *is* a 'drop in replacement for
sendmail', this is an entirely correct thing to do

Probably the standard location of sendmail on your system is in your
PATH, but the location of exim is not.

Do this:

which sendmail
ls -l `which sendmail`

And that should show you both where the 'sendmail' symlink is, and where
it points.