Re: [exim] Please check for SSL transport errors

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: The Doctor, exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Please check for SSL transport errors
On 12 February 2017 at 00:19, Phil Pennock <pdp@???> wrote:

> On 2017-02-11 at 06:14 -0700, The Doctor wrote:
> > root@gallifrey:/usr/source # exim -d -bV
> > Exim version 4.89 #5 built 11-Feb-2017 05:34:07
> > Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
>
>
> > root@gallifrey:/usr/source/exim-4.88/build-FreeBSD-amd64 # ./exim -bV -d
> > Exim version 4.88 #7 built 11-Feb-2017 05:26:16
> > Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 6.2.23: (March 28, 2016)
>
> Well that's why you're getting broken hints databases.
>
> Build 4.89 with the same DB you built 4.88 with.
>
> > root@gallifrey:/usr/source # sendmail -v -qff -d+all
>


Calling exim sendmail scares me stiff!

Please change that by editing /etc/mail/mailer.conf, then invoke exim as
exim and not sendmail. Cosmetic, but helps me not have shivers :-)

> less /etc/mail/mailer.conf

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.3.36.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06
kensmith Exp $
#
# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
#
sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/exim
send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/exim
mailq           /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
newaliases      /usr/bin/true
hoststat        /usr/bin/true
purgestat       /usr/bin/true




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