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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, William O'Higgins wrote:

> Is anyone using exim as their MTA?  I am attempting to migrate to
> FreeBSD, but this is my stumbling block.  exim works, but it will not
> send mail out of the machine, and the log has "Operation timed out"
> messages for every queue run on every message until they get returned as
> undeliverable.
>
> Has anyone got a sample FreeBSD exim config I can look at, perhaps one
> that uses a smarthost (but that's not strictly necessary)?  Thanks.

You might find you get better diagnostics by asking exim directly what
it's up to. Use "exim -bt" and type email addresses at the prompt. It'll
show you the routing decisions it makes to deliver a message to that
address.

The exim user mailing list is very good; if you stay stuck, drop me a
line offlist with your exim config and I'll try to help.

Cheers,
jan

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