[Gllug] Exim

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

Doesn't exim have a dbm type database which logs messages? I have just
bought the O'Reilly exim book but it's at home so I'll  have a browse
through it tonight and see if this question is answered.

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:itsbruce at uklinux.net]
Sent: 14 March 2002 11:10
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Exim


On 14/03/02, 10:39:26, "Jackson, Harry" <HJackson at colt-telecom.com> wrote 
regarding [Gllug] Exim:


> Hi all

> Two Questions


> One
> Is there an easy way to delete all messages from the exim Queue. I have 
seen
> a perl script to do this on google but I would have thought that there 
would
> be a command to do this. I did try the following.

> $>less /pathtolog/msglog > error.log
> $>exim Mrm < error.log

rm -f /var/spool/exim/input/*


> Two
> Does anyone here use Exim with a smarthost. For some reason the setup 
that I
> had seems to be broken. I am pretty sure that it is the authentication 
that
> is not working because I can see the lights flash on the modem when 
sending
> a message via debain from the windows Box. I am using this with Yahoo. I
> have set the smart host up correctly in the exim.conf file with the 
correct
> username and password for my yahoo account and the address "From" field 
is
> correct as I know yahoo is very picky about this. I have read a lot of 
stuff
> from google about people having problems with this. Is exim the correct
> tool.

Exim is the correct tool.  Authentication may not be the right answer in 
this case.  Have a look at this:
http://www.linux.ca/lists/talk/msg00108.html

According to that, Yahoo uses pop-before-smtp not authenticating smtp.

To find out where the problem is, though, you need to check your mail 
logs.  In your case, you elitist Debian bigot, these are in 
/var/log/exim/

-- 

Bruce

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