Debian wheezy exim4 Refuses All External Mail.

2014-11-07 Thread Martin G. McCormick
I am more used to sendmail under FreeBSD and I suddenly lost my FreeBSD system on which I receive mail from everywhere so I need to quickly make a wheezy system stop rejecting all incoming non-local messages. The exim4 installation on the system in question is the out-of-the-box

Re: Debian wheezy exim4 Refuses All External Mail.

2014-11-07 Thread Joe
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:31:21 -0600 Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: I am more used to sendmail under FreeBSD and I suddenly lost my FreeBSD system on which I receive mail from everywhere so I need to quickly make a wheezy system stop rejecting all incoming

Re: Debian wheezy exim4 Refuses All External Mail.

2014-11-07 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Joe writes: much good information not quoted but greatly appreciated etc. and try to telnet in from outside, see what message you get. 2dc martin tmp $telnet debsystem.it.okstate.edu 25 Trying 169.254.5.10... telnet: connect to address 169.254.5.10: Connection refused telnet: Unable to

Re: Debian wheezy exim4 Refuses All External Mail.

2014-11-07 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Joe writes: original state. Either way, check /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, which gets updated by dpkg-reconfigure. The file contains instructions as to how to make changes. This has gotten me started on the right direction plus, of course, man update-exim4.conf. The

Re: Debian wheezy exim4 Refuses All External Mail.

2014-11-07 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-07, Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: The exim4 installation on the system in question is the out-of-the-box installation that came on the wheezy installation CD and every indication is that it is working as it should right now. My understanding is

Re: Debian wheezy exim4 Refuses All External Mail.

2014-11-07 Thread Joe
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:34:19 -0600 Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: Joe writes: original state. Either way, check /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, which gets updated by dpkg-reconfigure. The file contains instructions as to how to make changes. This has

Debian wheezy exim4 Refuses All External Mail. Solved

2014-11-07 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Joe writes: You're in the wrong place. First, exim4 can use either one large main configuration file, or it can use many files for individual configuration options, and you were asked to decide which in the original configuration questionnaire. In this case, it doesn't matter which you