Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: Matt Staroscik CC: Exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Troubleshooting remote SMTP refusal (61)
Matt Staroscik wrote:
> I am having trouble delivering email to a remote address. Since I just rebuilt my
> entire email system, moving from Exim 3 to 4, I am pretty sure I have some kind of
> config error, perhaps even something outside exim's config file.
>
> Symptom: Mail to a particular server is refused. Log entries:
> 2003-11-06 10:51:08 1AHpDo-000Lz1-2w wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us [168.150.253.1]:
> Connection refused
> 2003-11-06 10:51:08 1AHpDo-000Lz1-2w == xxxxx@??? R=dnslookup
> T=remote_smtp defer (61): Connection refused
>
> I have looked all over and I cannot find error 61.
>
> More info:
>
> This is the only server I get this error from.
>
> I have telneted to the target server and they are listening!
From your MX?
> The mailbox definitely exists.
>
> I have tested delivery with exim -d -bt and everything looks fine on my end -- and
> exim does correctly try to route it to the external machine.
