[Pkg-exim4-users] Can not send mail through smarthost

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-04-18 PRAN Boonrasri <pran@controlthai.com> wrote:
> Hello!

> I have difficulties to manually setup /etc/exim4/exim4.conf. I always get 
> error when I try to send out to smarthost. My smarthost is
> 'mail.controlthai.com'.

> pran@boonrapr:~$ echo "Test mail" | mail -s "Test Message from PRAN"
> support@controlthai.com
> pran@boonrapr:~$ 

> And here is the error from # tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog

> 2005-04-18 00:55:11 1DNDzD-0001l4-Do <= pran@controlthai.com U=pran P=local 
> S=376
> 2005-04-18 00:56:21 1DNDzD-0001l4-Do ** support@controlthai.com 
> R=smart_route
> T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure 
> period
> 2005-04-18 00:56:49 1DNE0n-0001l7-Ka <= <> R=1DNDzD-0001l4-Do U=Debian-exim
> P=local S=1257
> 2005-04-18 00:56:49 1DNDzD-0001l4-Do Completed
> 2005-04-18 00:57:28 1DNE0n-0001l7-Ka ** pran@controlthai.com R=smart_route
> T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure 
> period
> 2005-04-18 00:57:28 1DNE0n-0001l7-Ka Frozen (delivery error message) 
> 2005-04-18 01:10:12 Start queue run: pid=6782
> 2005-04-18 01:10:12 1DNC0E-0001gh-Dg Message is frozen
[...]

Please stop exim,

/etc/init.d/exim4 stop

clean up the hints-db
rm /var/spool/exim4/db/*

and retry your test.
               cu andreas
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