Re: [exim] SMTP forwards with EXIM

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Author: Andrew Osborn
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP forwards with EXIM
I've tried numerous things but this is still a problem.
In my mainlog file it says the e-mail is frozen.
I can telnet to the PC with SMTP. I start it as a daemon, I add the
port, open the firewall. But it still will not work.
Any tests I can do?

Thanks,


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:30:07 -0600, Andrew Osborn <aosborn@???> wrote:
> I did it in /etc/services because a doc said too. can't hurt so not so bad.
>
> With the daemon being ran from somewhere else...what do you advice? I
> suppose I could reboot the server, if it doesn't popup I can run the
> daemon once, see if that fixes it. Unless the frozen e-mail messages
> give any clue. i hate rebooting.
>
> guess it's late at night, cant do much harm.
>
>
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:58:16 -0800, Fred Viles <fv+exim@???> wrote:
> > On 7 Feb 2005 at 22:28, Andrew Osborn wrote about
> >    "Re: [exim] SMTP forwards with EXIM":

> >
> > | I removed smtp line from inetd.
> >
> > Good.
> >
> > | Added it to /etc/services.
> >
> > Shouldn't do any harm, but why?
> >
> > | Checked lsof | grep -i tcp, and after restarting inetd, smtp only
> > | showed up once, as exim.
> >
> > So exim is running at this time.
> >
> > |...
> > | Obviously I have a problem with port 25 being assigned to something
> > | else. I removed it everywhere but /etc/services so I dont understand
> > | that.
> >
> > lsof showed it was assigned to exim, so it must be already running.
> > Sounds like you have exim started up as a daemon from somewhere you
> > are not expecting, so your attempt to start it again later fails.
> >
> > - Fred
> >
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>
> --
> Andy Osborn
> 920-319-6032
>



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