Re: [exim] Mailman + Exim + Secondary MX

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:21 +0200, GamCo - Gawie Marais wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a server that does secondary MX hosting for all our domains.
>
> Recently, I set-up mailman and it works great if recipients are local.
>
> My exim.conf has a entry :-
>
> domainlist relay_to_domains = /usr/local/etc/exim/domain_relay
>
> where I keep a list of all domains my server should handle secondary MX for.
>
>
> The problem being that with the mailman mailing lists, when sending mail out
> to recipients in the list, it does not deliver to domains not specified in
> the /usr/local/etc/exim/domain_relay file and I end up with a error "Relay
> not permitted".
>
> However, when I replace
>
> domainlist relay_to_domains = /usr/local/etc/exim/domain_relay
> with something like :-
> domainlist relay_to_domains = *
>
> it works great. But I'm sure that's not the ideal solution.
>
> Can anyone perhaps help me out with some alternatives or advice...?

Sounds like Exim is not configured to allow relay from localhost. If you
have a hostlist called something like 'relay_from_hosts', put 127.0.0.1
in it. Otherwise create one.

And an ACL clause something like:

accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts

high up in the rcpt ACL.

Peter