On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
>
> > AFter a few weeks I have discovered a real problem with exim. I can send
> > mail to anyway except one email address eng.uct.ac.za. Exim is running on
> > comgate.ee.uct.ac.za. All the emails that I send to eng.uct.ac.za comes
> > back with the error number 550.
>
> .... what is the text that goes with the 550? Do you know which SMTP
> command is causing this error?
Here is a sample return message
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A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients.
The
following address(es) failed:
ajw@???:
SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:
<http@???>:
host www.eng.uct.ac.za [137.158.135.175]:
550 Access denied
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> Try running exim in debugging mode to see what it says. If you do
>
> exim -d postmaster@???
> <some message>
> ..
>
> then it will show the SMTP interaction. If you use -d9 you will see a
> lot more debugging information.
I tried that option and there is too much information to report but the
following statements maybe insightful.
/usr/exim> bin/exim -d9 daniel.mashao@???
Exim version 2.02 debug level 9 uid=0 gid=0
probably GDBM
Actual local interface address is 127.0.0.1
Actual local interface address is 137.158.129.242
set_process_info: 26780 2.02 accepting a local non-SMTP message from
<root@???>
Sender: root@???
Recipients:
daniel.mashao@???
search_tidyup called
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Does "accepting a local non-SMTP message" signifies something?
The last part of the messages says
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Processing retry items
Succeeded addresses:
Failed addresses:
Deferred addresses:
daniel.mashao@???: no retry items
end of retry processing
time on queue = 10s
warning counts: required 0 done 0
delivery deferred: update_spool=1 header_changed=0
Writing spool header file
Size of headers = 319
end delivery of 0z6ATi-0006xw-00
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Daniel J. Mashao
Electrical Engineering daniel@???
University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel
Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469
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