On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Romy Arslan wrote:
> example of a message sent to hotmail.co which doesn't exist :
>
> message log :
>
> 1998-11-18 11:20:25 jaberel@???: internet router deferred: lookup
> of host "hotmail.co" failed in internet router
> *** Frozen ***
> 1998-11-22 09:03:08 jaberel@???: internet router deferred: lookup
> of host "hotmail.co" failed in internet router
> *** Frozen ***
I get a normal bounce on that address, with the error
** jaberel@???: unrouteable mail domain "hotmail.co"
Please try running
exim -d9 -bt jaberel@???
to see which routers it is running and where it is failing.
Oh, hang on. I can see what is happening. You have set up a domainlist
router that is handling that address. In the domainlist router you have
specified a specific host on some routing rule. The host you have
specified is "hotmail.co", which does not exist. This isn't just a
normal "domain doesn't exist" failure, it is "you specified this host
and it doesn't exist" - which Exim thinks is a configuration error, and
that is why it freezes. If you didn't expect it to you the domainlist
router, then you can still run the suggested test above to see why it is
getting there.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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