Re: [exim] mails send from the server are gone

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Auteur: Peter Bowyer
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Onderwerp: Re: [exim] mails send from the server are gone
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:49:37 +0100, patrick coeman <patrick@???> wrote:
> Situation: a webserver with freebsd 4.10 & exim 4.43. When a
> application, running on the server, sends a mail to me they are gone in
> a "big black hole". example. I run a forum (phpbb). User can registrade
> and I receive a notification mail to allow / disallow the new user. The
> notification mail is gone. It works fine with the previous versions of
> exim. That is what I find in the /var/log/maillog:
>
> Dec 28 16:56:50 server sm-mta[7492]: iBSLuoQT007492:
> from=<apache@???>, size=844, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<372c84bb03ba01c30fcde60cf26d9eb6@www.forum.myserver.net>,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost.ezzi.net [127.0.0.1]
> Dec 28 16:56:50 server sendmail[7491]: iBSLuoFM007491:
> to=webmaster@???, ctladdr=apache (1004/1003), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30717, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
> dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (iBSLuoQT007492 Message accepted for delivery)
> Dec 28 16:56:50 server sm-mta[7494]: iBSLuoQT007492: SYSERR(root):
> mail.myserver.net. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> Dec 28 16:56:50 server sm-mta[7494]: iBSLuoQT007492:
> to=<webmaster@???>, ctladdr=<apache@???>
> (1004/1003), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30844,
> relay=mail.myserver.net. [66.199.224.100], dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local
> configuration error
> Dec 28 16:56:50 server sm-mta[7494]: iBSLuoQT007492: iBSLuoQT007494:
> DSN: Local configuration error
> Dec 28 16:56:50 server sm-mta[7494]: iBSLuoQT007494:
> to=<apache@???>,root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=local, pri=61868, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
> 1. myserver.net is fake.
> 2. phpbb is one of the many local running stuff that is installed. I
> have it also with phpnuke, postnuke, mamboserver, typo3, directadmin, etc...


That log syntax doesn't come from Exim - you've probably omitted to
symlink /usr/sbin/sendmail (or some variation) to point to your Exim
binary, and so anything on the local machine calling the binary gets
'real' sendmail instead of Exim.

Peter