I run a couple of mailing lists that get pretty decent traffic. I used to
use Exim as my MTA. I came across a pretty strage problem using Exim a
couple of weeks ago. Mails to cyberspace.org were bouncing. I somehow
managed to exchange a few emails with one of the admins of this service and
they told me that there was some kind of misconfiguration at my end.
I ran a couple of tests and the results are as following:
OS: Debian 2.1 (hamm)
exim: 2.05-1
* Using Exim as MTA. Mails to cyberspace.org bouncing.
$ echo "Testing. Please ignore." | sendmail -v
rahul21@???
LOG: 0 MAIN
<= thaths@??? U=thaths P=local S=295
www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8
probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
delivering message 10wrwF-0003ms-00
Connecting to grex.cyberspace.org [204.212.46.130] ... connected
SMTP<< 220-grex.cyberspace.org Sendmail 8.6.13/8.6.12 ready at Wed, 23
Jun 199
9 14:40:54 -0400
220 ESMTP spoken here
SMTP>> EHLO www
SMTP<< 250-grex.cyberspace.org Hello aunet.org [216.103.113.202], pleased
to meet you
250-EXPN
250-SIZE 100000
250 HELP
SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<thaths@???> SIZE=1326
SMTP<< 250 <thaths@???>... Sender ok
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<rahul21@???>
SMTP<< 553 <rahul21@???>... One generation passeth away, and
another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: 0 MAIN
** rahul21@??? R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from
remote m
ailer after RCPT TO: <rahul21@???>: host grex.cyberspace.org
[204.212
.46.130]: 553 <rahul21@???>... One generation passeth away, and
anoth
er generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8
probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
LOG: 0 MAIN
<= <> R=10wrwF-0003ms-00 U=mail P=local S=1228
LOG: 5 MAIN
Error message sent to thaths@???
LOG: 0 MAIN
Completed
Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8
probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
delivering message 10wrwH-0003mx-00
LOG: 0 MAIN
=> thaths <thaths@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
LOG: 0 MAIN
Completed
What gives? Would really appreciate help in fixing this under Exim.
Thanks.
Thaths
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