RE: [Exim] Sending mail with exim..

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Author: Mike Gifford
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To: jan.johansson, exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Sending mail with exim..
Hello,

Thanks for your quick response..

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 09:08, Jan Johansson wrote:
> > 2002-06-20 00:10:08 17KtGq-00019b-00 == mike@???
> > routing defer (-45):
> > domain is in queue_remote_domains
> That says it all. flora.org is in your queue_remote_domains in exim.conf.

Thats your problem.

I commented this out and it did seem to change some things:
# Added because of http://www.hserus.net/exim.html by Mike
# queue_remote_domains = *

I'm getting these errors now from the exim_mainlog:

2002-06-20 10:26:18 17L2q4-0000me-00 mail.flora.ca [209.195.78.66]: Connection t
imed out
2002-06-20 10:29:27 17L2q4-0000me-00 mail2.flora.ca [216.187.106.239]: Connectio
n timed out
2002-06-20 10:32:36 17L2q4-0000me-00 mailhost.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca [192.139.46
.2]: Connection timed out
2002-06-20 10:32:36 17L2q4-0000me-00 == mike@??? T=remote_smtp defer (110)
: Connection timed out
2002-06-20 10:38:45 17L1AZ-0000ON-00 Spool file 17L1AZ-0000ON-00-D not found
2002-06-20 10:39:51 17L36F-0000qO-00 <= mike@??? U=mike P=loca
l S=491
2002-06-20 10:39:51 17L36F-0000qO-00 == mike@??? T=remote_smtp defer (-44)
: retry time not reached for any host


Believe they are likely emerging as I (following someone's comments in a
weblog) deleted the log files (as exim would recreate them.

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 09:16, Jan Johansson wrote:
> > Connecting to mail.flora.ca [209.195.78.66.25] ...
> > I've got no idea why it just stops here.. Suggestions would
> > be very helpful..
> > I'm trying to resolve a prolbem I'm having that I suspect
> > lies with my ISP's
> > SMTP server..
> Sorry, i spoke to soon on that. Well, i have no problem in connecting
> to that host. Could it be a evil ISP? Does 209.195.78.66 belong to
> your ISP or is it a remote resource? Quite a few ISP have started to
> block port 25 to all hosts except their own SMTP hosts.


I don't think that this evil ISP is blocking port 25.. The IP (209.195.78.66)
doesn't belong to the ISP, but it is the computer where my mailbox resides
(it's outside of my system).

I don't generally have a problem connecting to that IP either.. That is where
requests to mike@??? should go.. (and where I was sending it)

> Have you verified with telnet?


I haven't.. But I'm not sure how to do this either.. I only want to use exim
to send mail, I don't actually want to receive mail locally with it.. It's
actually behind a firewall (which could well be the problem - although that
shouldn't block port 25) I could put exim on an internet visible computer if
this is needed -- I just don't know if that is needed or not..

Mike
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