Bug#1014424: exim4-config: recieve warnings about messages being delayed by Smarthost

[tmcconnell168 at gmail.com]

On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 09:21 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 05:51:54PM -0500,
> tmcconnell168 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Well now the message is frozen? 
> > Message 1o8Jxl-007SqX-3Q has been frozen.
> > The sender is <root at debiantim.midcoip.net>.
> > 
> > The following address(es) have yet to be delivered:
> >   survey at popcon.debian.org: remote host address is the local host
> 
> I apologize in advance for all misunderstanding, but this all looks
> so
> much like misconfiguration that I would like you to consult the user
> support channels. I don't see a bug here.
> 
> What do your logs say regarding the message? Do you know how exim
> works?
> Did you, by any chance, configure your local host as the smart host
> for
> your local host?
> 
> Greetings
> Marc
> 

>Do you know how exim works? as far as I can tell from the
documentation it is supposed to allow for send and receiving mail
without programs like sendmail, procmail, etc. How it actually does it
wasn't very clear.  
> Did you, by any chance, configure your local host as the smart host
for your local host? The only thing I changed was the "mail." in the
host name. Which is what I did before when I first installed Debian on
this machine (and the previous releases) and never had any issues. So
everything is default om thee installation screens. From what I could
tell from the documentation that's what you should do if you're unsure
of what you're doing. 

>From main log in /var/log/exim4 
2022-07-06 07:36:32 1o94Gd-00D4PS-8L <= root at debiantim.midcoip.net
U=root P=local S=3246
2022-07-06 07:36:32 1o94Gd-00D4PS-8L => tmick
<root at debiantim.midcoip.net> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2022-07-06 07:36:32 1o94Gd-00D4PS-8L Completed
2022-07-06 07:36:33 1o94Gf-00D4Qt-08 <= root at debiantim.midcoip.net
U=root P=local S=2831
2022-07-06 07:36:33 1o94Gf-00D4Qt-08 => tmick
<root at debiantim.midcoip.net> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2022-07-06 07:36:33 1o94Gf-00D4Qt-08 Completed
2022-07-06 07:48:26 Start queue run: pid=3199445
2022-07-06 07:48:26 1o8Jxl-007SqX-3Q Message is frozen
2022-07-06 07:48:26 End queue run: pid=3199445
2022-07-06 07:53:42 1o94XG-00DlHj-MZ <= root at debiantim.midcoip.net
U=root P=local S=539
2022-07-06 07:53:42 1o94XG-00DlHj-MZ => tmick
<root at debiantim.midcoip.net> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2022-07-06 07:53:42 1o94XG-00DlHj-MZ Completed
2022-07-06 07:53:43 1o94XH-00DlJE-0G <= root at debiantim.midcoip.net
U=root P=local S=467
2022-07-06 07:53:43 1o94XH-00DlJE-0G => tmick
<root at debiantim.midcoip.net> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2022-07-06 07:53:43 1o94XH-00DlJE-0G Completed
2022-07-06 07:56:23 1o94Zr-00DmGr-Id <= root at debiantim.midcoip.net
U=root P=local S=2257108
2022-07-06 07:56:24 1o94Zr-00DmGr-Id => tmick
<root at debiantim.midcoip.net> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2022-07-06 07:56:24 1o94Zr-00DmGr-Id Completed
2022-07-06 08:05:40 1o94ip-00DmSL-Uu <= root at debiantim.midcoip.net
U=root P=local S=1331582
2022-07-06 08:05:40 1o94ip-00DmSL-Uu => tmick
<root at debiantim.midcoip.net> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2022-07-06 08:05:40 1o94ip-00DmSL-Uu Completed
2022-07-06 08:18:26 Start queue run: pid=3285900
2022-07-06 08:18:27 1o8Jxl-007SqX-3Q Message is frozen
2022-07-06 08:18:27 End queue run: pid=3285900
2022-07-06 08:48:26 Start queue run: pid=3286426
2022-07-06 08:48:27 1o8Jxl-007SqX-3Q Message is frozen
2022-07-06 08:48:27 End queue run: pid=3286426
2022-07-06 09:18:27 Start queue run: pid=3287529
2022-07-06 09:18:27 1o8Jxl-007SqX-3Q Message is frozen
2022-07-06 09:18:27 End queue run: pid=3287529

>From the reject log (same location /var/log/exim4) there's: 
Envelope-from: <root at debiantim.midcoip.net>
Envelope-to: <root at debiantim.midcoip.net>
  Subject: unattended-upgrades result for debiantim.midcoip.net:
FAILURE
* From: root
* To: root
T To: root at debiantim.midcoip.net
  Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
F From: root <root at debiantim.midcoip.net>
I Message-Id: <E1o7HY1-00336q-F3 at localhost>
  Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:23:05 -0500
2022-07-01 09:23:07 1o7HY2-00336s-B7 rejected from <> U=Debian-exim:
message too big: read=52428801 max=52428800
Envelope-from: <>
Envelope-to: <root at debiantim.midcoip.net>
  Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
F From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon at debiantim.midcoip.net>
T To: root at debiantim.midcoip.net
  References: <E1o7HY1-00336q-F3 at localhost>
  Subject: Mail failure - message too big
I Message-Id: <E1o7HY2-00336s-B7 at localhost>
  Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:23:06 -0500

So I don't know why/ what the issue is, could it be I didn't configure
it right? Maybe, but wouldn't it of gave me problems from the start and
not 6 months after I installed it?