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

[Johann Spies]

Hallo Peter,
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:58:02PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote:
> 
> I followed the instructions in http://wiki.debian.org/exim.
> Created /etc/exim4/exim.crt and /etc/exim4/exim.key using exim-gencert.
> Put my user and passwd in /etc/exim4/passwd,client.
> Tested with swaks.
> 
> The transcript from swaks and data from 6:59 onward in
> /var/log/exim4/mainlog follow.
> The only complaints I recognize are the lines of the mainlog citing
> "retry" and "Frozen".  No insight for me.
> 
> The swaks message wasn't delivered to the recipient.
> What should be done to solve this?
...
> This is the content of /var/log/exim4/mainlog from 6:59 onward.
> 
> 2014-03-03 06:59:58 1WKULW-0003cw-4j <= peter at dalton.invalid
> H=localhost.localdomain (dalton.invalid) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=498
> 2014-03-03 06:59:58 1WKULW-0003cw-4j ** p.l.easthope at gmail.com R=smarthost
> T=remote_smtp_smarthost: retry time not reached for any host after a long
> failure period
> 2014-03-03 06:59:58 1WKULW-0003d0-Cd <= <> R=1WKULW-0003cw-4j
> U=Debian-exim P=local S=1356
> 2014-03-03 06:59:58 1WKULW-0003cw-4j Completed
> 2014-03-03 06:59:58 1WKULW-0003d0-Cd ** peterl at easthope.ca
> <peter at dalton.invalid> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: retry time not
> reached for any host after a long failure period
> 2014-03-03 06:59:58 1WKULW-0003d0-Cd Frozen (delivery error message)
> =====================

I am a bit rusted as far as exim4 is concerned as I stopped working as
an email adminitrator nearly 4 years ago.

But I will try the following:

* Read the content of message R=1WKULW-0003cw-4j. It should be an error
  message giving you some reason for the non-delivery
* Run 'sudo exim4 -v -d all -M 1WKULW-0003d0-Cd' and watch what happens.

Regards
Johann
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