[Exim] local_domains lookup deferred forever?

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Author: atxl
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] local_domains lookup deferred forever?
Okay, after further discussion and testing, it turns out that the LDAP
lookup is _not_ the culprit. Any suggestions as to where to look to
find something which could cause these symptoms?:

Multiple recipients result in the first listed recipient being properly
delivered, the others go into permanent loop with 'local_domains lookup
deferred' messages, even when there is no lookup for local_domains (I
replaced the lookup with a colon seperated list of the local domains
for the box.)

Thanx for any help,
Clint

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 10:57 AM, clint wrote:

> I am experiencing a problem with a newly deployed Exim server. It is
> configured similarly to our existing server, which works just fine.
> Admittedly, I am not an LDAP guru, and I believe the problems to be
> LDAP related.
>
> When I send mail to more than one recipient, only the first gets
> delivered. The others get permanently recycled with 'local_domains
> lookup deferred' messages. The other addresses will deliver
> successfully if entered alone on a To: line or entered as the first
> recipient. This is true whether the additional recipients are entered
> as a comma seperated list on the to: line or as CC: or BCC: recipients.
>
> My local domains ldap line looks like this:
>
> local_domains =
> "ldap;ldap::///LDAPUSERS?cn?one?(&(cn=$key)(|(mx=*)(cname=*)))"
>
> the LDAPUSERS macro looks like this:
>
> LDAPROOT = dc=virtual,dc=helixsystems,dc=com
> LDAPUSERS = ou=Users,LDAPROOT
>
> our LDAP schema contains mx attributes, which dictate which server
> speaks for the domain, cname attributes which give mailhost expansion
> (i.e. poopoo.com has an mx attribute pointing to mailhost.poopoo.com)
> the cn contains the domain to be looked up (poopoo.com.) Only the
> mailhost.poopoo.com entry would contain an mx attribute, conversely
> only the poopoo.com entry would contain a cname.
>
> This is Exim 3.35, from Debian package, running on Debian 3.0R1.
>
> I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for this, but I've been
> looking at it too long I think. Any ideas?
>
> Thanx,
> Clint
>
>
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