[Pkg-exim4-users] smarthost-config not working; unrouteable, frozen

[Christoph Krell]

Hi List,

I'm using a debian 4.0 with the 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 kernel and the 
standard-exim4 package (4.63-17).

I had exim4 running on debian 5.0 before, but i had to switch back to 
4.0, so i decided to copy the /etc/exim4, but that just didn't work.
So i deleted the /etc/exim4 by hand (that was a bad idea, got me in 
trouble when reinstalling) and ended up reinstalling all exim4-packages.

Unfortunatly, exim4 still won't work. I get the following errors for 
every mail:

cat /var/log/exim4/mainlog
...
2009-07-13 13:59:52 1MPcee-0001Kb-5A ** office at mediadesign.at: 
Unrouteable address
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MQKCH-0001fZ-0K Error while reading message with no 
usable sender address (R=1MPcee-0001Kb-5A): at least one malformed 
recipient address: root at ETC_MAILNAME - malformed address: _MAILNAME may 
not follow root at ETC
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MPcee-0001Kb-5A Process failed (1) when writing 
error message to root at ETC_MAILNAME (frozen)
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MPd2b-0001GE-4x Unfrozen by forced delivery
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MPd2b-0001GE-4x ** root at localhost: Unrouteable address
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MQKCH-0001fb-1i Error while reading message with no 
usable sender address (R=1MPd2b-0001GE-4x): at least one malformed 
recipient address: root at ETC_MAILNAME - malformed address: _MAILNAME may 
not follow root at ETC
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MPd2b-0001GE-4x Process failed (1) when writing 
error message to root at ETC_MAILNAME (frozen)
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MPcmG-0001Og-PQ Unfrozen by forced delivery
2009-07-13 13:59:53 1MPcmG-0001Og-PQ ** office at mediadesign.at: 
Unrouteable address
2009-07-13 13:59:58 1MQKCM-0001fd-8j Error while reading message with no 
usable sender address (R=1MPcmG-0001Og-PQ): at least one malformed 
recipient address: root at ETC_MAILNAME - malformed address: _MAILNAME may 
not follow root at ETC
2009-07-13 13:59:58 1MPcmG-0001Og-PQ Process failed (1) when writing 
error message to root at ETC_MAILNAME (frozen)
...

my configs:
pretty simple, i want all mails to be forwarded to a smarthost in my 
LAN. Configured it with dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config as the howto's 
told me (worked perfectly under debian 5.0)

the smarthost is up and running, responds to smtp requests.
network and dns is up and running

Don't know where to look at. Could there be some old config-files that 
are still interfering? problems with the internal db because of dirty 
uninstalling?

Any help is greatly appreciated, any additional Info will be provided ASAP.

Thanks,

-- 

Christoph Krell
Technik

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