RE: [exim] "Retry Timeout Exceeded" - Mail not getting out

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Author: Bruce Best (CRO)
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To: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [exim] "Retry Timeout Exceeded" - Mail not getting out
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Sherman [mailto:msherman@projectile.ca]
>
> Are you sure you're not still having that same problem? From
> the logs you posted, it doesn't look like it has anything to do with the
> smarthost; it looks like the message is being rejected on receipt,
> before it ever gets to the smarthost. The relaying being rejected is
> from cp.com to leslieville.ca, not from leslieville.ca to your ISP.
> Without the Received headers, I can't tell how the mail got
> to cp.com, though.


Right, that makes sense. However, I don't think cp.com is relevant (that
just happens to be where the canada.com email is running through), because
any posts from any email account are being similarly rejected. I even tried
sending an email from the command line ("exim4 -v croissues@???")
to the list from the same machine, and got a similar error in
/var/log/exim4/mainlog:
_____________________________________
2005-02-17 10:03:42 1D1nBj-0008Bp-2d <= root@??? U=root P=local
S=287
2005-02-17 10:04:13 H=mail.leslieville.ca (thai.leslieville.ca)
[216.138.221.201] F=<root@???> re
jected RCPT <croissues@???>: relay not permitted
2005-02-17 10:04:13 1D1nBj-0008Bp-2d ** croissues@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from
remote mailer after RCPT TO:<croissues@???>: host
mail.leslieville.ca [216.138.221.201]: 550 rela
y not permitted
2005-02-17 10:04:13 1D1nCP-0008Bt-Dr <= <> R=1D1nBj-0008Bp-2d U=Debian-exim
P=local S=1242
2005-02-17 10:04:13 1D1nBj-0008Bp-2d Completed
2005-02-17 10:04:43 H=mail.leslieville.ca (thai.leslieville.ca)
[216.138.221.201] F=<> rejected RCPT <root@l
eslieville.ca>: relay not permitted
2005-02-17 10:04:43 1D1nCP-0008Bt-Dr ** root@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remot
e mailer after RCPT TO:<root@???>: host mail.leslieville.ca
[216.138.221.201]: 550 relay not perm
itted
2005-02-17 10:04:43 1D1nCP-0008Bt-Dr Frozen (delivery error message)
_____________________________________
>
> Does your machine know that it's local mailname is leslieville.ca?


That's what I put when prompted by dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, and that's
what is in /etc/mailname. But it does seem as if exim doesn't know its name.

My /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated has the following lines, if this is
relevant:
______________________________________
domainlist local_domains = @:localhost
domainlist relay_to_domains =
hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : ::::1 : 192.168.2.0/24
qualify_domain = leslieville.ca
______________________________________

> BTW, that wouldn't happen to be the Leslieville in the east end of
> Toronto, would it? I'm in the Beaches. :)


Yes, Dundas & Pape :)

Bruce