On 2020-04-03 09:35, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
>
> You tried to Exim as a daemon (-bd) and debug output (-d). The debug
> output goes to stderr, which may not be available to the daemon anymore (I
> guess).
>
> exim -bdf -d
>
> is what I use. "-bdf" lets Exim sit in the foreground, so I can kill it
> easily using ^C.
AFAIK running exim under systemd (as the OP clearly does) requires -f in
any case. It would help to know their distribution and how they
installed exim (did the package include the systemd unit file?)
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Ian