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Re: [LUG] Problem sending emails

 

Simon / Robin

Many many thanks. 
-   Rang SMC (router manufacturer) who told me to upgrade the firmware
-   Upgraded firmware
-   Turned off router, left it 10 minutes and turned it back on. Pending
    emails sent
    
Problem identified.

For anyone else running Debian, I found the following commands (as root)
very helpful is seeing what the heck is happening

exim -q or -qf  This retries the pending queue in Exim4
exim -bp        Displays what is on the queue
exiqgrep        Again what is on the queue
tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog  Keeps the exim4 log open at the last few
messages

Will start looking for a linux happy modem / router



On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:13:00PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> Henry Bremridge wrote:
> > 
> > The problem started just after I installed the latest security updates from
> > Debian etch: but I did not think they had a exim update.
> 
> /var/log/dpkg.log exists for a reason... at least it should do in Etch
> and Sid.
> 
Thank you. 


2006-06-11 12:11:02 upgrade libxft2 2.1.8.2-5.1 2.1.8.2-8
2006-06-11 12:11:04 upgrade lsb-base 3.1-8 3.1-10
2006-06-11 12:11:31 upgrade libpopt0 1.7-5 1.10-2
2006-06-11 12:11:33 upgrade module-init-tools 3.2.2-2 3.2.2-3
2006-06-11 12:11:35 upgrade libgl1-mesa-glx 6.4.1-0.4 6.4.2-1
2006-06-11 12:11:35 upgrade libglu1-mesa 6.4.1-0.4 6.4.2-1
2006-06-11 12:11:36 upgrade libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 1:1.0.0-3
2006-06-11 12:11:36 upgrade libofx2c2a 1:0.8.0-11 1:0.8.0-12
2006-06-11 12:11:37 upgrade psutils 1.17-21 1.17-22
2006-06-11 12:11:38 upgrade tetex-base 3.0-17 3.0-18
2006-06-11 12:12:10 upgrade tetex-doc 3.0-17 3.0-18
2006-06-11 12:12:49 upgrade tetex-extra 3.0-17 3.0-18

> Your report still reads somewhat muddled to me.
> 
> You are saying neither machine can send email anywhere? In which case
> the common element would be the router.
> 
The problem seems to be that neither machine can send email of more than
about 20k

> > Firewall is not a problem because I can send emails without attachments
> 
> Some firewalls try and get clever with SMTP to do things with
> attachments. But we don't know what firewall you have, what box it is
> running on, or anything about how it is involved in the SMTP transaction
> at all.

Apologies

Two firewalls:
-   NAT on the router SMC 7404 BRA (have called them and, as instructed,
    have just upgraded the firmware) (NB did not work on its own: had to
    turn off and turn on again to get it to work)
-   Firestarter v 1.03 on this Debian etch machine     

Furthermore I have sent emails:
-   To my isp (on port 25), no SSL, nothing
-   To my webhost (using TLS/SSL on port 2025. This was my default).
-   Straight from my machine

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