Re: FN-FORUM: receive mail

date posted 30th June 2007 15:09

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:16:47PM -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> cheers
>
> installed exim and the webmin module
> and figured the command for alternatives to get the MTA to change.
>
> created log files
>
> started exim: service exim start
>
> stats files come up in webmin nicely, Yes it does seem a bit better in that
> respect at least than sendmail.
>
> however:
> the server still aint accepting mail from outside at all,
> and not delivering locally sent mail either - just storing them in the exim
> queue

What can you see in /var/log/exim ? You should see a file called mainlog
That will tell you what is happening. Once you have fixed something
the command;
exim -qff
will attempt to flush the queue.
Are the permissions on /var/spool/mail correct ?

Who are you trying to mail to ? Exim may well be configured to not mail to
the user root -- in which case you set an alias up in /etc/aliases

Can you send mail locally;

ps | mail -s test john

> have tried to config it by adding the domain to the exim.conf "domainlist
> local_domains and relay_to_domains"
>
> have opened ports 465 and 597 in the firewall

TCP port 25 is what you need in the firewall.

> but still no luck
>
> - any thoughts

What does netstat show you ?

What happens when you go:

telnet machinename 25

from somewhere else ?

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