Marc Sherman wrote:
> Shea Martin wrote:
>
>> Emails I send to domains like gmail and hotmail, and quite a few
>> others keep
>> bouncing with errors like this:
>
> [snip]
>
>> 2005-11-15 00:36:54 Received from john@??? H=woody
>> [192.168.0.2] =
>> P=esmtpa A=fixed_plain:shea S=534
>> id=3D200511150036.40818.john@???
>> 2005-11-15 00:36:55 john@??? R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer
>> (-53): retry time not reached for any host
>
>
> 1) mydomain.ca doesn't appear to be your actual domain:
>
> msherman@pyloric:~$ host mydomain.ca
> Host mydomain.ca not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
>
> Please do not obfuscate your logs, headers, and quoted bounces when
> posting to this list.
>
> http://exim.org/eximwiki/MailingListEtiquette#head-a6f7fb5ce8816568569a321f783315207ec38063
>
>
> 2) Your log message seems to be in a strange format; I've never seen a
> message like that that didn't have an exim message id (such as
> 1Ec0o4-000GrI-DR) after the timestamp. They're also missing the "<="
> and "==" status flags. Did you remove the IDs and status flags from
> your log before posting, or have you changed your log config in exim
> in some way? Either way, please don't.
>
> 3) The log message you gave only tells us that exim eventually gave up
> trying to deliver the message; it doesn't tell us why it failed to
> deliver the messages in the first place. Use exigrep to find all the
> log messages associated with a given message ID, and you should find
> out why gmail and hotmail are tempfailing your deliveries repeatedly.
>
> - Marc
>
Sorry for log obfuscation. I believe that I have the one of the reasons
my email address recieves spam, is that I have used the email address
(exposed) on mailing lists and newsgroups in the past.
Here is the log (/var/spool/exim/msglog/1EbsYw-00017B-RP) without
obfuscation
<log>
2005-11-15 00:36:54 Received from shea@??? H=woody
[192.168.0.2] P=esmtpa A=fixed_plain:shea S=534
id=200511150036.40818.shea@???
2005-11-15 00:36:55 sam_squirrelntuz@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
2005-11-15 02:38:52 mx1.hotmail.com [64.4.50.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:42:37 mx4.hotmail.com [65.54.253.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:46:21 mx4.hotmail.com [65.54.190.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:50:06 mx3.hotmail.com [65.54.253.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:53:51 mx3.hotmail.com [64.4.50.179] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:53:51 sam_squirrelntuz@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 03:05:06 mx1.hotmail.com [65.54.166.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 03:05:06 sam_squirrelntuz@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 04:38:52 mx1.hotmail.com [65.54.252.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 04:42:37 mx1.hotmail.com [64.4.50.50] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 04:42:37 sam_squirrelntuz@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 07:08:52 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.190.50] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 07:08:52 sam_squirrelntuz@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:08:53 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.252.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:12:37 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.166.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:16:22 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.190.7] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:20:07 mx3.hotmail.com [65.54.167.5] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:23:51 mx3.hotmail.com [64.4.50.239] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:23:51 sam_squirrelntuz@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
</log>
I am pretty green at this mail server stuff. It is a bit overwhelming.
My guess is that maybe my server has been black listed? So I am
attempting to 'harden' the mail server, in hopes of getting off.
I have setup close to a dozen different types of servers, on various
unix's/linux's, even written my own special purpose servers, but I must
say setting up smtp has proved to be the most work.
~S
