[Techtalk] exim no longer sending mail

Caroline Johnston johnston at biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Jul 11 09:16:16 UTC 2006


Thanks. I managed to figure it out. The hostname was set wrong. Seems to
be working now.
Cxx

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Mary Gardiner wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006, Caroline Johnston wrote:
> > I was sending mail from a perl web app using exim and it's suddenly
> > stopped working. I thought it might be a firewall problem, but I don't
> > know enough about how exim works to translate the error message I get
> > when I try to send something from the command line. Output is below.
> > Could someone give me a rough english translation?
>
> I would attempt to diagnose it from the mail logs. They should be
> located somewhere in /var/log -- possibly /var/log/mail.log or
> /var/log/maillog. The name should be guessable. It should be logging
> each attempt to send mail and any errors.
>
> -Mary
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