Re: [Exim] host_accept_relay

The documentation left me wondering a little more than it should have.
Maybe I read the wrong parts.

As for host accept relay, I understand that this is for relaying users
mail from in our office and for those on the road. I just thought it
might have something to do with my problem. However, the main issue is
routing to the machine and I'm wondering if I have to do something with
my DNS server.

I've contacted our ISP and they say that port 25 is not blocked. I have
tested this and that is correct.

My public IP begins with 209.115.., but internally the machine IP is
192.168... - I'm assuming that our public IP's do not go through our
firewall and the the IP translation is done entirely by the switch.
This means that the only DNS I need to worry about is the one at the ISP.

I've checked the error logs and they don't say much. I have 6 frozen
messages, presumably they are in the queue so they outgoing problems. I
can send mail directly from the machine out, using Squirrelmail. I can
telnet to port 25 and run through the commands manually and the mail is
delivered.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Brian

Glen Mehn wrote:

> Brian Auty wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to send mail to my new mail server and I can't seem to
>> make it work.
>>
>> There could be any number of problems, since I'm new at this, but so far
>> I've set up Exim and Courier IMAP and when I test locally everything
>> works. I've installed Squirrelmail and that works, at least for
>> sending.
>>
>> But no matter what I try, I cannot send mail to this server.
>>
>> I have to assume that our ISP has blocked mail or I've set up the
>> host_accept_relay incorrectly.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>
> read the manual?
>
> host_accept_relay is for hosts/networks for whom you want to always
> relay mail (i.e., use the exim server as their smtp server). Check the
> names and values of local_domains and relay_domains, as well as the
> information in the logs (typically either in /var/log/exim or in
> /var/log)
>
> And you'll need to setup DNS to route mail for your machine.
>
> glen
>
>
>