On Saturday 15 February 2003 19:22, Andreas Gietl wrote:
i tracked the error down and found out the following:
4611 processing "accept"
4611 check hosts = +relay_from_hosts
4611 gethostbyname returned 3 (NO_RECOVERY)
4611 host not found
4611 host in "127.0.0.1 : /etc/relayhosts"? lookup deferred for
/etc/relayhosts
4611 host in "+relay_from_hosts"? lookup deferred for +relay_from_hosts
4611 accept: condition test deferred
4611 SMTP>> 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
4611 LOG: MAIN REJECT
looks like exim failed to handle the data-input from the /etc/relayhosts file
defined in exim.conf:
hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : /etc/relayhosts
maybe some misformat in this file caused the error? the file was readable, so
that is not the problem.
Any ideas?
> Hi,
>
> i upgraded one of our major mailservers to exim-4.12 + exiscan-4.12-22
> yesterday and everything works smoothly except for one strange thing.
>
> Sometimes relaying users are rejected with the following message:
>
> temporarily rejected RCPT
>
> In the main an reject-log the following appears:
>
> 2003-02-15 14:55:57 H=(hostname) [111.111.111.111] F=<sender-foo@???>
> temporarily rejected RCPT <recipient@???>
>
> So no reason is given, why these mails are rejected.
>
> Both the recipient and the sender are valid Adresses working just fine. And
> a few minutes later the same Mail simply works and is accepted.
>
> I already turned off hostlookups and re-checked the configuration, but did
> not find any suspicious things. The mails are not rejected by an ACL as far
> as i can see. Since this behavior appears for a few minutes and disappears
> later i can not go into debug mode an watch it, because i never saw it
> live.
>
> One more interesting thing: this behavior occurs concentrated on a few
> minutes and disappears after this for hours. So i have about 30 of these
> entries in the log between 10 minutes and then it suddenly stops. But in
> this 10 minutes time-slot other mails are successfully relayed.
>
> Before i go into an in-depth analysis i would like to hear your comments,
> since this is gonna take me hours.
>
> Any ideas? Any suggestions? Do you need any further information?
>
> Thank you
>
> Andreas
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