[Exim] Selective retry timeout exceeded

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A collegue is installing Exim as his MTA and is having a strange problem.
Email to our HQ (ba.ars.usda.gov) is getting returned with the following
errors:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mail Delivery System [mailto:Mailer-Daemon@pars.ars.usda.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 7:29 AM
To: lbirch@???
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender


This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  schwartp@???
    Connection timed out:
    retry timeout exceeded

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Return-path: <lbirch@???>
Received: from [199.133.143.24] (helo=antartic)
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       id 16EuE1-0003N3-00
       for <schwartp@???>; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:26:13 -0800
From: "Lyle M. Birch" <lbirch@???>
To: "Paul Schwartz" <schwartp@???>
Subject: Draft Protocols 08333 & 08124
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:25:32 -0800
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The strange part is that only mail to this domain gets returned and only
from this server. I’m not on site so I can’t post all the information here
that I would like but if anybody has a suggestion or two on where to begin
looking I would appreciate it.

Eric


Eric Bruntjen
Computer Specialist
USDA-ARS Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory
mailto:ebruntjen@yarl.ars.usda.gov
http://www.yarl.prosser.wsu.edu/Support_Services/Computers/Comp_Main.htm
Phone: (509) 454-6562
Fax: (509) 454-5646

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