helo everyone -
banging my head against a simple configuration problem (I reckon): here are
those log files in full...
What I Want To Happen
=====================
mail addressed to testmail@??? gets pointed (by MX records)
at a machine called phalcon. I want the exim process on phalcon to forward the
mail to phalphajo, which is sitting on a private network (192.168...). the
private IP address of phalphajo is known to phalcon via the latter's /etc/hosts
file. The following director is the one intended for such deliveries, listed
first in its section:
independent_subdomains:
driver = smartuser
domains = ph.kcl.ac.uk
transport = subdomains_smtp
no_more
which uses the following transport:
subdomains_smtp:
driver = smtp
no_delay_after_cutoff
non_mx_domains = *
gethostbyname
hosts=phalphajo.ph.kcl.ac.uk
What Actually Happens
=====================
exim goes to the external name-server again for phalphajo, finds that the
lowest MX is the local host, and so freezes the mail. here is the relevent bit
from exim_mainlog:
> 1998-07-09 15:21:11 0yuHZP-00009B-00 == testmail@???
> R=lookuphost defer (-1): lowest numbered MX record points to local host
> 1998-07-09 15:21:11 0yuHZP-00009B-00 Frozen
eximination of the debug log file suggests to me that the above director isn't
being invoked:
< Delivery address list:
< testmail@???
< locked /usr/exim/spool/db/retry.lockfile
< opened DB file /usr/exim/spool/db/retry: flags=0
< unique = testmail@???
< dbfn_read: key=R:phalphajo.ph.kcl.ac.uk
< testmail@???: queued for routing
< After directing:
< Local addresses:
< Remote addresses:
< Failed addresses:
< Addresses to be routed:
< testmail@???
< Deferred addresses:
< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
< routing testmail@???, domain phalphajo.ph.kcl.ac.uk
< lookuphost router called for testmail@???
< dns lookup: route_domain = phalphajo.ph.kcl.ac.uk
...and then it freezes the mail.
ok other relevent things I can check:
configure file: local_domains = ph.kcl.ac.uk
/etc/aliases: testmail: testmail@???
/etc/hosts: 192.168.2.16 phalphajo phalphajo.ph.kcl.ac.uk
any suggestions etc gratefully received.
many thanks,
james
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