anyone good with exim4 or debian config files?

Jason Stephenson jason at sigio.com
Tue Mar 13 20:06:25 EDT 2007


Jesse Lazar wrote:

[Snippage.]

Without seeing your whole configuration file, I can't really tell you if 
you have a problem with your exim configuration. One way to tell is if 
the messages hang around in your exim queue for a long time. You can 
check the exim queue with

exim -bp

run as root.

There are many things that delay mail delivery and these are not always 
configuration issues. Yahoo! often takes hours to days to accept mail. I 
often see this repeatedly with particular accounts while the mail sent 
to others just goes right through.

> the above does not return any errors. but i must say that i am just 
> guessing at what do. when i look at the message i just sent i see the
> line:
> 
> Received: from localhost.localdomain (unverified [4.233.164.63]) by
> mail21.cisp.com
>  (Rockliffe SMTPRA 7.0.6) with ESMTP id <B0001389299 at mail21.cisp.com> 
> for <jlazar_nospam_ at basicisp.net>;
>  Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:58:40 +0000
> 
> its the "unverified" that bothers me.i don't see this in messages that
> people send to me. i don't what to make of the above line or the
> situation. also, if i send a message to my yahoo account it takes days
> to be delivered.

The "unverified" likely means that your ISP can't reverse lookup your IP 
address or it doesn't match the host name that you are sending over 
(localhost.localdomain). If you can get a host name by doing a reverse 
lookup (dig -x 4.233.164.63), then you might want to configure exim to 
have that name for its hostname instead of the default which queries the 
localhost for what it thinks its name is.

> 
> well, if anyone has any advice i'd really appreciate it.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> jesse lazar



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