[Exim] Half an exim

I am running exim on a Debian linux machine behind a cisco router with a
static IP address. I have exim set up on a firewall box that is also
performing DNS. The DNS appears to work very well. I can query it
locally and from other machines via nslookup. (I have forwarded port 53
and port 25)

I can send mail anywhere from my firewall machine and I can receive mail
from any local machine. I cannot, however, receive any mail from
machines off of my local network. I have tried using the -d9 option on
an external machine. It appears to try to use my firewall machine but
then deems it "unusable." Can anyone tell me what thie means.

Here is a piece of the output from the -d9 option

checking status of buckhill.icantbelieveimdoingthis.com
locked /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
opened DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: flags=0
dbfn_read: key=T:buckhill.icantbelieveimdoingthis.com:206.206.97.132
dbfn_read:
key=T:buckhill.icantbelieveimdoingthis.com:206.206.97.132:14CfVd-0007Wv-00
no message retry record
buckhill.icantbelieveimdoingthis.com [206.206.97.132] status = unusable

It then uses a secondary mailer from my ISP and gives me the following
output:

checking status of mail2.thuntek.net
locked /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
opened DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: flags=0
dbfn_read: key=T:mail2.thuntek.net:206.206.98.15
dbfn_read: key=T:mail2.thuntek.net:206.206.98.15:14CfVd-0007Wv-00
no host retry record
no message retry record
mail2.thuntek.net [206.206.98.15] status = usable

What do the phrases

no host retry record

and

no message retry record

mean?


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