I've given up at present trying to migrate from exim to dma,
altough will try again

Purged exim4 and installled the dma. this time from my machine's
repository. While this is a very old version at least it nicely
created the dma configuration files. I set SMARTHOST to the correct
address with a ::587 appended. But my ISP neverteless rejected mails
seng by means of dma because it mail uses port 25.

In the configuration I eneterd PORT 587, but that didn't help.

Strangly, when I do $ telnet localhost 25 I get connection
refused. But when I replace dma with exim4, telnet has no
problem. Is dma imposing local port 25 even though I specify my
ISP's port to be 587 on the PORT line? Am I missing someting in
the configuration?

So I'm now back running exim4. If I fetch mail with the fetchmail
command rather that run fetchmail as a daemon, the problematic
messaage have ended. Perhaps pruring exim did the trick, but I
thought I had done that originally.

So problem apparently over, but will try to to migrate to dma
again at some point.

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     Haines Brown