Re: [exim] Mail delivery failing to internal/rfc1918 hosts

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Author: Dave Evans
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Mail delivery failing to internal/rfc1918 hosts
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:33:31PM -0500, Fred Weston wrote:
> I've just setup a Debian lenny box running Exim 4.69. All works fine,
> except I can't get Exim to deliver mail to my internal Exchange server
> which has a 192.168.x.x address. I read about the ignore_target_hosts
> option in /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/200_exim4-config_primary, but have it
> commented out. I've restarted Exim, but Exim still refuses to deliver
> mail.
>
> In /var/log/exim4/mainlog, I see the following error:
>
> "all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts"
>
> I've verified that DNS resolution is resolving the proper MX and that I
> can manually telnet to port 25 on that MX from the command line of this
> box. Mail delivery to other hosts on the general Internet is working
> fine.
>
> Thoughts?


It sounds like you're on the right track with ignore_target_hosts.
Presumably that config setting didn't take effect like you wanted it to.

Probably you need Debian-specific help: see "Getting Support" in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz .

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