[Pkg-exim4-users] Troubleshooting exim4 in Wheezy.

[Peter Easthope]

Johann,

On Thu, March 6, 2014 12:11 am, Johann Spies wrote:
> Look in /var/spool/exim4/input and /var/spool/exim4/msglog

No such message in either location.

peter at dalton:/var/spool/exim4/input$ ls -l
total 32
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 1457 Mar 10 06:30 1WN0Hd-0004Gb-Qb-D
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim  734 Mar 10 06:30 1WN0Hd-0004Gb-Qb-H
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 1457 Mar 11 06:30 1WNMlD-0004ep-IK-D
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim  734 Mar 11 06:30 1WNMlD-0004ep-IK-H
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim  989 Mar 11 14:24 1WNU9w-0004un-KS-D
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim  733 Mar 11 14:24 1WNU9w-0004un-KS-H
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 1030 Mar 11 18:44 1WNYDF-0001In-Ic-D
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim  733 Mar 11 18:44 1WNYDF-0001In-Ic-H
peter at dalton:/var/spool/exim4$ cd ../msglog
peter at dalton:/var/spool/exim4/msglog$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 260 Mar 10 06:30 1WN0Hd-0004Gb-Qb
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 260 Mar 11 06:30 1WNMlD-0004ep-IK
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 260 Mar 11 14:24 1WNU9w-0004un-KS
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 260 Mar 11 18:44 1WNYDF-0001In-Ic

> You can do that in /etc/aliases:
>
> root: peter
> peter: peter at easthope.ca
>
> or something similar.

Those aliases were in /etc/aliases before this investigation began.
Seems odd that /etc/aliases and /etc/email-addresses have similar purposes.
Also odd that exim4 complains about email-addresses but has not read
aliases.

> What does paniclog complain about? /var/log/exim4/paniclog

peter at dalton:~$ cat /var/log/exim4/paniclog
2014-03-04 07:46:19 socket bind() to port 25 for address 172.24.1.1
failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned
2014-03-04 18:58:14 socket bind() to port 25 for address 172.24.1.1
failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned
2014-03-04 19:22:24 socket bind() to port 25 for address 172.24.1.1
failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned
2014-03-04 21:29:16 socket bind() to port 25 for address 172.24.1.1
failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned

That is all in paniclog.

172.24.1.1 is the connection for a hub which allows connection of a
few machines of my local network.  This seems the cause of failure
of exim4.  But why does this binding fail?  I am baffled here.

> If you want to receive mail by smtp from outside, you should add a rule
> for that in /etc/shorewall/rules.

SMTP is needed here only for outgoing mail.  Not for incoming mail.  So
I suppose there is no problem with Shorewall.  To my understanding the
problem hinges on 172.24.1.1.

Thanks for any further ideas.

Regards,                ... Peter E.

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