Re: [Exim] remote host address is the local host

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: Kevin W. Reed, exim-users
CC: Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad
Subject: Re: [Exim] remote host address is the local host
At 0:36 -0700 2003/10/08, Kevin W. Reed wrote:
>Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad said:

[...]
> > I run exim 4 on a rh 7.3 box.
>>
>> I get the message "remote host address is the local host" in
>> "exim_errorlog":
>> 2003-10-08 08:49:34 H=www.aarrestad.com (loft.aarrestad.com)
> > [192.168.0.20] sender verify defer for <[sender]@kjeller.aarrestad.com>:
>> remote host address is the local host
>> 2003-10-08 08:49:34 H=www.aarrestad.com (loft.aarrestad.com)
>> [192.168.0.20] F=<[sender]@kjeller.aarrestad.com> temporarily rejected
>> RCPT <[recipient]@aarrestad.com>: Could not complete sender verify
>>
>> exim is located on "kjeller.aarrestad.com", and from the errormessage I
>> think I understand that exim is not happy verifying senders from another
>> computer to istelf.
>>
>> kjeller.aarrestad.com is added to "relay_to_domains", but this did not
>> help


well, someone must eventually accept mail for kjeller.aarrestad.com
if you want it to work. So, it should be in the local_domains on the
machine that accept eventually mail, and since the are no MXs for
that, it must be on kjeller.aarrestad.com itself.
That I would say is the prob.

>For starters... part of your problem is that aarrestag.com is not a valid
>hostname.


it does not need to be a hostname, it just needs to have an MX and it has.
It might have been created in the past twenty minutes of course.

>So for at least other mail servers [recipient]@aarrestad.com would be
>invalid.


not now at least..

Giuliano