Re: [exim] Relay Not Permitted Error

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Relay Not Permitted Error
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:50:53 -0400, "Sul, Young L"
<Sul@???> wrote:
>I have an exim4 setup that seems to be running fine. Users with their
>email clients (outlook, thunderbird) are able to send and receive
>messages - EXCEPT for one user. Regardless of the email client used,
>he's unable to send mail to users outside our domain - whenever he
>sends, I see
>
>
>
>2006-09-14 13:48:41 H=([127.0.0.1]) [211.106.186.217]
>F=<user@???> rejected RCPT <
>
>Other_user@???>: relay not permitted
>
>
>
>One thing I noticed was that I can't do any name service lookup on his
>IP. Would this cause email to be denied.


Are your users using SMTP AUTH, or are they permitted to relay by
means of an IP- or host name based ACL? If so, is the list IP or host
name based?

>I believe you have to pass your username and password to be able to even
>use our mail relay.


That depends on your configuration.

Greetings
Marc

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