After a long battle with technology, Eric Cope wrote:> (mail.voltampmedia.com). I highly doubt my ISP blocks smtp
> apt-get'ed exim and mailutils. I installed and ran the dpkg-reconfigure
> command. I am trying to use an external smtp server
Think again. Many, many places block or silently discard traffic to port 25
that doesn't match one of @SMALLNUM destination addresses. There are far too
many damned spam zombies out there, you know. Check your logs for details.
Check the logs. Crank the log level up and then force a redelivery attempt
> The mail command works. I see the mail in the queue (sudo mailq).
> However, the mail just sits in the queue, never going anywhere.
with the exim equivalent of "postqueue -f" if there's nothing in the logs.
It sounds like you want to use a smarthost. As such, check out
> The lack of google results scares me. Either it is so insanely easy, that
> its not even worth putting tutorials online, or
http://wiki.exim.org/FAQ/Routing_to_remote_hosts/Q0304 as well as the obvious
toplevel site. The default Debian config for exim is also a complete mess,
about 10 separate files when it should really be 1 file, and there's a way to
fix that but it's been forever since I worked with it. There's a ton of
useful info in the README and on the wiki. HTH anyway,
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