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.)
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