Re: [exim] Exim mail issue

On 2008-04-22 at 13:09 +0530, Piyush Sharma wrote:
> Hi Phil

Hi; please don't remove the list from the CC; there are other people who
can help, and it's 1am here and past time for me to log out.

> The version of exim running is 4.43. I tried sending mail to remote address
> usin exim -v command and got following lines in exim main.log file
>
> 2008-04-22 12:58:24 Start queue run: pid=14523
> 2008-04-22 12:58:27 1JoCDK-0003l6-9o mail-fwd.verio-web.com [161.58.16.34]:
> Connection refused
> 2008-04-22 12:58:27 1JoCDK-0003l6-9o == piyushs@??? R=dnslookup
> T=remote_smtp defer (111): Connection refused
> 2008-04-22 12:58:30 1JoCGO-0003lG-PG a.mx.mail.yahoo.com [209.191.118.103]:
> Connection refused
> 2008-04-22 12:58:30 1JoCGO-0003lG-PG b.mx.mail.yahoo.com [66.196.97.250]:
> Connection refused
> 2008-04-22 12:58:30 1JoCGO-0003lG-PG c.mx.mail.yahoo.com [216.39.53.3]:
> Connection refused
> 2008-04-22 12:58:30 1JoCGO-0003lG-PG c.mx.mail.yahoo.com [216.39.53.2]:
> Connection refused
> 2008-04-22 12:58:30 1JoCGO-0003lG-PG g.mx.mail.yahoo.com [209.191.88.239]:
> Connection refused
> 2008-04-22 12:58:30 1JoCGO-0003lG-PG == piyush_25378@??? R=dnslookup
> T=remote_smtp defer (111): Connection refused
>
> the panic.log & reject.log files are empty.

So you can't establish a connection to the remote servers. Is there a
firewall local to you blocking outbound connections? Is it plausible
that the IP address you're trying to connect from is on a IP blacklist
that lists machines that should never be allowed to even connect?

-Phil