Hello, everyone. Well, here's the short of it: my outgoing mail is not being
delivered. I am almost positive that this was working only a few days ago.
I am not all that familiar with the exim log syntax, though it's pretty clear
that stuff is not being correctly sent out. Since I have not made any
significant changes to my local setup, the problem may be on the server side.
The problem with that is I am able to grab my messages using fetchmail without
a problem. So, this may not be an exim problem at all. Hopefully, someone
might be able to tell which it is :-)
Anyway, here is some info from the logfiles. Whenever I try to send out a
message, i get something to this effect:
1999-07-22 15:14:50 117PEv-0003Pw-00 ** cmayes@??? R=smarthost
T=re
mote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
1999-07-22 15:14:50 117PEv-0003Pw-00 Frozen (delivery error message)
and here is the most recent activity logged (including sample message):
1999-07-22 15:14:43 115vS4-0001aL-00 == nobody@??? T=remote_smtp defer
(110): Connection timed out
1999-07-22 15:14:43 116w3C-0007px-00 Unfrozen by forced delivery
1999-07-22 15:14:49 117PEv-0003Pu-00 <= cmayes@??? U=cmayes
P=local S=393 id=19990722151449.F2453@cmayes
1999-07-22 15:14:49 117PEv-0003Pu-00 ** cmayes@??? R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
1999-07-22 15:14:49 117PEv-0003Pw-00 <= <> R=117PEv-0003Pu-00 U=mail P=local
S=1139
1999-07-22 15:14:50 117PEv-0003Pu-00 Error message sent to
cmayes@???
1999-07-22 15:14:50 117PEv-0003Pu-00 Completed
1999-07-22 15:14:50 117PEv-0003Pw-00 ** cmayes@??? R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
1999-07-22 15:14:50 117PEv-0003Pw-00 Frozen (delivery error message)
Could someone interpret this for me? It seems to be having trouble connecting
to the smtp port on the mailandnews server. Does that sound about right? I
did a portscan on the server to see if it would tell me anything. Here are
the lines for the pop3 (which fetchmail uses) and the smtp port:
Port State Protocol Service
25 filtered tcp smtp
106 open tcp pop3pw
110 open tcp pop-3
I suppose the filtering might be to blame. Is there a way for me to check
this out? I can, of course, supply more info as needed. I am running exim
version 2.11 on Debian Potato with Kernel 2.2.6.
Thanks,
-Chris
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