Re: [Exim] Help with Exim "SMTP service not available"

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Philip Hazel
Date:  
To: Ruth Ivimey-Cook
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Help with Exim "SMTP service not available"
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:

> I feel silly asking this, but can anyone provide any ideas why my exim
> server has just started refusing connections to certain hosts with the
> message "500 SMTP service not available" in a telnet session and in the
> mail log.


That is not an Exim message. The Exim message when it refuses service
(hosts_reject) is:

554 SMTP service not available

Therefore, you are talking to some other program. (The error code 500 is
supposed to be used for syntax errors.)

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.