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| Author: | Sheshadri [ Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cant send mail using exim/sendmail |
Hi, i cannot send mail from the site .. this is my hosts file in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain site.org 127.0.0.1 site.org the mail works sometimes .. and most of the time it throws "Could not execute mail delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i' " . Any idea what is happening?? i did exim restart regards, sheshadri |
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| Author: | Vance [ Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:29 am ] |
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Not knowing anything about exim, some ideas: 1. Is /usr/bin/sendmail linked to exim? If you have fooled around with installing different MTAs, it may not be. 2. What do your mail logs say? 3. Can you successfully invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail from the command line? Like so: Code: $ /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i 4. If #3 works, can you also do it as the user that is having trouble sending mail (e.g., on Debian/Ubuntu, Apache runs as the www-data user)? 5. Your hosts file almost certainly has nothing to do with things. |
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| Author: | Sheshadri [ Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Updates |
Hi, Thanks for the reply. Yes , sendmail is linked to exim(Wrapper) . Iam able to send mails using sendmail -t -i < mail.txt Like i said the mails work sometimes(for all the users). And suddenly it stops . I have to restart httpd,exim to make it work . and most of the times the exim crashes and i ahve to manually start again . I was thinking on cron restarting all the services every hour or so .. But that doesnt sound right. |
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| Author: | mjrich [ Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Updates |
Sheshadri wrote: I have to restart httpd,exim to make it work . and most of the times the exim crashes and i ahve to manually start again .
What's happening to the rest of your server -- are you sure you're not just OOMing with a misconfigured apache or my.cnf ? Exim is generally rock stable. |
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| Author: | rawrwx [ Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:34 pm ] |
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What distribution are you using? http://library.linode.com/email-guides/exim/ is helpful if you're using a debian based distro. What program are using to test exim4? Code: echo "Body" | mail -s "Subject" you@domain.com |
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