Re: [Exim] Exim rejecting email routed from ISP

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Author: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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To: Cam Ellison
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim rejecting email routed from ISP
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Cam Ellison wrote:

> I get email from two sources, my own domain which uses a dynamic dns
> assignment (through dyndns.org) and from my ISP (dccnet.com). Until
> yesterday, when I attempted to upgrade to exim 4.05 (I am currently
> using 3.35 as part of Debian woody), everything worked fine (except,
> as Nigel can tell you, when spamassassin got out of hand). I had to
> re-install 3.35, and tidied up the spamassassin contents of exim.conf,
> and ever since, though mail to my domain comes through fine,
> everything coming from dccnet.com (via fetchmail) gets bounced. I
> have searched through the archives, but nothing seems to deal with
> this, nor can I find anything in the FAQ. I'm sure it's a simple
> matter, but at the moment I'm too thick to see it.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> Your message has encountered delivery problems to the following
> recipient(s):
>
> root@localhost
> Delivery failed
>
> Unable to deliver to destination domain
> Mail server at localhost [127.0.0.1] has the same MailSite serial
> number (32073) as this machine.


A "MailSite serial number" doesn't sound like an exim thing;
is it part of spamassassin ?

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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