On 5 October 2011 10:05, Phil Pennock <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-10-04 at 11:11 +0100, Dermot wrote: >> We are currently suffering from a network outage on our leased line >> and have attempted to fail-over to our secondary exim4 MX that sits on >> a ADSL line but have hit a problem. >> >> The secondary server used to make callbacks to the primary for rcpt >> authentication but something is stopping it from working. The primary >> can be resolved from the secondary. > > Presumably the network outage of your primary is keeping the secondary
Yes, there certainly were problems relating to the callback but I had hoped a bit of clever routing would get me round that. >> The logs are full of the messages like these: >> >> unknown ACL verb "acl_check_mail" in "acl_check_mail" > > Sounds like someone's doubled a line somewhere, or otherwise pasted > random junk into your Exim configuration. It turned out that there were files missing from my - split - config. I was missing quite a few. Here what I had: 40_exim4-config_check_data 10_local_acl 30_exim4-config_check_rcpt 20_exim4-config_whitelist_local_deny 00_exim4-config_header Here's what I should have had: 20_exim4-config_whitelist_local_deny 30_exim4-config_check_mail 30_exim4-config_check_rcpt 40_exim4-config_check_data 20_exim4-config_local_deny_exceptions 10_local_acl 00_exim4-config_header I have no idea where they went but once they were back in place, it began to work as expected. Thanks Dp. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
