Re: [Exim] exim fails to send (no route to host)

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Author: Mike Brown
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim fails to send (no route to host)
Hi,

My ISP is blocking outbound traffic destined for TCP port 25 except to
its own smtp server. Adding:

smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* smtp.myisp.com bydns_a"


to exim.conf resolved the issue. Thanks.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:02:33AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Mike Brown wrote:
>
> > I'm recieving mail via exim just fine, however mail I send gets stuck in
> > the queue and the logs keep telling me:
> >
> > 2003-07-10 15:53:56 19agAY-0003Nh-00 mx2.mail.yahoo.com [64.156.215.5]: No route to host
> > 2003-07-10 15:53:56 19agAY-0003Nh-00 == someuser@??? T=remote_smtp defer (113): No route to host
> > 2003-07-10 15:53:59 19agAY-0003Nh-00 drat.neophi.com [66.92.68.102]: No route to host
> > 2003-07-10 15:54:08 19agAY-0003Nh-00 mx2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.225]: No route to host
> > 2003-07-10 15:54:08 19agAY-0003Nh-00 == someuser@??? T=remote_smtp defer (113): No route to host
> > 2003-07-10 15:54:08 19ahE0-0003im-00 == someuser@??? T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host
> >
> > Yet I can find routes to all of these hosts just fine with traceroute.
>
> "No route to host" is certainly a TCP/IP error. Try connecting to the
> host with telnet.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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-Mike Brown