Re: [Exim] exim internal bounces????

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Yann Golanski
Date:  
To: wayne Allen
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim internal bounces????
--
Quoth wayne Allen on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:11:00 +0000
> I am having slight problems with exim 4.12/mailman when I send email from
> a remove machine to my mailman server, it processes fine, but the return
> mail appears to bounce... The question is is there any indication from
> this log entry as to what is doing the bounce, it it the machine that exim
> is running on, or is it further up the chain. I have tried duplicating
> this with exim -v but all works with no problem
>
> 2003-06-10 12:58:43
> H=localhost (ccpc337.rhul.ac.uk)
> [::1] F=<mailman-bounces@???> rejected RCPT
> <wayne.allen@???>: relay not permitted


This looks familiar... Let me guess, you are using FreeBSD as a base OS
and have install Exim and Mailman from the port tree?

It's an IPv6 issue. Change the relay_from_hosts to read:
hostlist relay_from_hosts = localhost
and it should all work.

--
yann@???                  -=*=-                      www.kierun.org
    PGP:   009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680  06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318
--
[ Content of type application/pgp-signature deleted ]
--