5.2 upgrade and Exim delivery

[joshua lokken]

Hello,

On a suggestion from the exim-users list ( I should've known to do this 
anyway),
I did:

# portupgrade -Rf exim

and my problems have gone away.  The 'missing' mail poured in, and exim is
happy.  Thanks very much.

>
>joshua lokken wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I am working on becoming familiar with FreeBSD 5.x after using 4.x for the 
>>past few years.
>>The machine in question is a web and mail server; I originally installed 
>>5.1 from the mini iso,
>>then upgraded to RELENG_5_2 last weekend.  The upgrade went without 
>>problems, as it
>>always has...and i did not change anything in Exim's configuration, but 
>>now
>>
>>Exim no longer starts on system startup.  In /etc/rc.conf, I have:
>>
>>sendmail_enable="NONE"
>>exim_enable="YES"
>>
>>And the lines in /etc/mail/mailer.conf are changed from sendmail to exim 
>>binary paths.
>>
><snipped>
>
>>
>>ls /var/spool/clientmqueue shows messages in form:  qfi2FB8SYT048073
>>ls /var/spool/exim/msglog shows messages in form:    1B11Vc-0000cm-S4
>>
>>So, I'm wondering,
>>
>>a) what went wrong during the upgrade?
>
>
>
>Can't say for sure.  It's looks a lot like sendmail
>is handling your incoming SMTP, though; that's
>sendmail's message ID type you've listed there.
>
>It might be wise to instruct FBSD not build sendmail
>at all; IIRC (but do some checking) that would be
>NO_SENDMAIL="true" (I mean, really do some checking...)
>in /etc/make.conf
>
>>b) how do I get my messages into the appropriate spool / delivered?
>>
>
>Have you tried starting Exim?  I guess that
>is where the error messages are coming from...
>
>What does the Exim FAQ say?
>
>
>KDK


Joshua

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