Re: [exim] I think I want to switch from mbox to maildir on …

At 11:47 am +0100 2005/03/07, Matthew Exon wrote:
>...and in a bit of followup, yesterday I tried just upgrading from
>exim to exim4. Hoo boy, I'm never doing that again! Exim just
>refused to deliver

I am afraid but you'll have to do that, if you want to receive any
help here. Exim3 is as dead as dinosaurs. Just forget your exim 3
configuration (if it is not too complex) and start from a standard
exim 4 conf, modifying it to your setup.


>anything and I went a whole day without receiving any email. Even if
>I tried to send mail from my local machine, the email ended up
>"Frozen" (I've replaced my username with "<username>" in the
>following):
>
>2005-03-07 11:00:05 Received from <username>@exon.dyndns.org
>U=<username> P=local S=335
>2005-03-07 11:00:05 <username>@exon.dyndns.org R=dnslookup defer
>(-1): remote host address is the local host
>*** Frozen
>
>Not the most helpful of error messages :-(

very similar to an equivalent sendmail message, if I remember well.
You probably forgot to add exon.dyndns.org to your local domains
list, and so it got routed by your dnsrouter instead of going down to
your local user router.

Giuliano