I've tried sending to 3 different hosts and none of them have DNS problems
when I try sending email via my Netscape client, connected directly to my
ISP...my email gets through fine...however, through exim, I get the same error
message each time...some configuration issue with my routers maybe???
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> At 08:28 PM 9/22/02 -0600, Kevin Weslowski wrote:
> >I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong on:
> >http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/
> >but whenever I do a search, I get how many results matched but no
> >links to any of the results...what is going on or what am I smoking?
>
> Try google, if you find pipermail (the mailman search engine) not all that
> adequate (which is putting it lightly).
>
> >Anyway, the error message I'm getting from "mainlog" is the following:
> >R=lookuphost defer(-1): host lookup did not complete
>
> So - there's a DNS problem with the host you are sending mail to.
>
> >and when I try to run the queue, I get:
> >routing defer (-42): retry time not reached
>
> ... and it is not yet time to retry the mail.
>
> Try using exim_tidydb on a periodic basis to flush your retry /
> wait-remote_Smtp dbs, if you think Exim is working on stale data here ...
>
> -srs
