Re: [Exim] Interesting Scene

Mulindwa Eric wrote:
> Hi guys,
> am New to this list and I have not used Exim before.
> However I have something interesting,
> I have a qmail MTA server which has virtual email domains say abc.co.ug,
> and this Virtual Domain has the same A record as the main server.
> All the MX records are fine.
>
> Now interestingly enough anyone who has an Exim MTA server can not send
> emails to this Virtual Domain abc.co.ug and yet they can send to the main
> server.
> Now this virtual domain can get emails from other MTA server , i have tried
> it out from yahoo.com , usa.net , hotmail.com and all these can send emails
> to users@???..

Without more informations, we can't help.
Show us DNS-records, or better a debuglog.
Or tell us the name of the domain.

> Then all users on my the domain abc.c.ug can send emails to the EXIM MTA
> server, but once a user at the exim server hits reply he gets this as the
> error message after sometime... see below
>
> 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:
>
> user@???
> Operation timed out:
> retry timeout exceeded

Exim does retrying host based, this just means that the retrytime for
this host isn't reached yet. you can run exim -qff to force delivery, or
exim -Mc MSGID.