Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20050605214344.00b69640@incoming.verizon.net> X-Sender: phumblet@incoming.verizon.net Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:43:44 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, dave@boost-consulting.com From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: Can't get Exim to send mail In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j561iTmn008043 At 07:22 PM 6/5/2005 -0500, René Berber wrote: >David Abrahams wrote: > >> I'm hoping someone can help me out. The smtp server I'm forced (by my >> ISP) to use, smtp.rcn.com, sometimes doesn't respond for 20 seconds at >> a time, and since I often send from Gnus -- which is synchronous -- I >> thought I might avoid locking up my Gnus UI by setting up an Exim >> daemon to send the messages for me. I'm behind a Linksys router, >> which is behind a cablemodem. >[snip] > >I didn't check all your config but you are missing the most important part, you >should have under routers: > >begin routers > >smart_route: > driver = manualroute > transport = remote_smtp > route_list = * smtp.rcn.com > > >That's the first thing to change, worry later about timeouts or anything else. > - It would informative to see what happens when you send mail to a specific user. e.g. exim -d dave@boost-consulting.com [exim will then expect input. Type a single Enter to use the default headers, then type a test message. End with a single "." on a line. ] B.t.w., the output "retry time not reached for any host" is probably due to previous messages still timing out. Wipe out all files in /var/spool/exim/db to get a clean slate. - You are not telling us what your isp forces you to do. If you must use smtp.rcn.com (as suggested by René Berber), do you also need to authenticate yourself? Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/