Pkg exim4 users - Jun 2005 - exim4 failing to route to localhost under debian

I suspect I have mis-configured exim4.

While following the documentation and wiki instructions I tested my 
exim4 installation under sarge with exim4 -bV and exim4 -bt <localuser> 
as well as exim4 -bt <remote user> and all worked swimmingly.

However, when I send a mail from <remote user> to <local user> over
the
internet I do not receive any mail on my server. Paniclog includes only 
two lines of information regarding an attempt to start another deamon on 
127.0.0.1 and mainlog states;

2005-06-14 12:34:45 Start queue run: pid=31743
2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhsPy-0001tZ-H8 Message is frozen
2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhqOe-0002sb-Mq Message is frozen
2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhqOe-0002ue-QA Message is frozen
2005-06-14 12:34:45 1Dhtqs-0002r3-9h Message is frozen
2005-06-14 12:34:45 End queue run: pid=31743

Have I mis-configured exim4 so that it fails to deliver mail from remote 
hosts to my host or do I just need to flush the queue?

Many thanks - Jeremiah

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:42:11PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster
wrote:
> However, when I send a mail from <remote user> to <local user>
over the
> internet I do not receive any mail on my server.
> Paniclog includes only 
> two lines of information regarding an attempt to start another deamon on 
> 127.0.0.1 and mainlog states;
> 
> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 Start queue run: pid=31743
> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhsPy-0001tZ-H8 Message is frozen
> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhqOe-0002sb-Mq Message is frozen
> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhqOe-0002ue-QA Message is frozen
> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1Dhtqs-0002r3-9h Message is frozen
> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 End queue run: pid=31743
> 
> Have I mis-configured exim4 so that it fails to deliver mail from remote 
> hosts to my host or do I just need to flush the queue?
The log clearly says that exim is not receiving the message. Maybe you
are still running a different mail server?

What does

# netstat -anp | grep '':25.*LISTEN''

(invoked as root) say?

Greetings
Marc

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>
>
>Marc Haber wrote:
>  
>
Thanks Marc,
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:42:11PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>  
>
>> However, when I send a mail from <remote user> to <local
user> over
>> the internet I do not receive any mail on my server.
>> Paniclog includes only two lines of information regarding an attempt 
>> to start another deamon on 127.0.0.1 and mainlog states;
>>
>> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 Start queue run: pid=31743
>> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhsPy-0001tZ-H8 Message is frozen
>> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhqOe-0002sb-Mq Message is frozen
>> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1DhqOe-0002ue-QA Message is frozen
>> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 1Dhtqs-0002r3-9h Message is frozen
>> 2005-06-14 12:34:45 End queue run: pid=31743
>>
>> Have I mis-configured exim4 so that it fails to deliver mail from 
>> remote hosts to my host or do I just need to flush the queue?
>>   
>
>
> The log clearly says that exim is not receiving the message. Maybe you
> are still running a different mail server?
>
> What does
>
> # netstat -anp | grep '':25.*LISTEN''
>
> (invoked as root) say?
>  
>
Netstat outputs only one line:
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               
LISTEN     2592/exim4

This means that I have only exim4 listening on the mail port (25) correct?

Thanks,

Jeremiah

Marc Haber wrote:
>[Did you deliberately take the discussion off-list?]
>  
>
My apologies, I will reply to the list in the future.
>On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:22:51PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>  
>
>>Netstat outputs only one line:
>>tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               
>>LISTEN     2592/exim4
>>
>>This means that I have only exim4 listening on the mail port (25)
correct?
>>    
>>
>
>that means that you have exim4 listening on 127.0.0.1, which will keep
>you from receiving mail from the Internet since 127.0.0.1 is never
>reachable from outside.
>  
>
So the logical thing to do is to add my static IP to the list of addresses.

Thanks,

Jeremiah

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:30:11PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster
wrote:
> Netstat outputs only one line:
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               
> LISTEN     2592/exim4
> 
> This means that I have only exim4 listening on the mail port (25) correct?
that means that you have exim4 listening on 127.0.0.1, which will keep
you from receiving mail from the Internet since 127.0.0.1 is never
reachable from outside.

Greetings
Marc

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