Re: [exim] Cannot send to own domain (which is served by Goo…

Thank you both, 'foo.com' isnt the actual domain name it was just an
example as I didn't want to spam the list with my actual domain.

The MX records point to googlemail and exim -bt prints out information
for googlemail. I did the exim -d -M thing and got reams of output I
don't yet comprehend but one of the complaints was about there being
no account for 'root@???' who is the sender but who doesn't exist
at googlemail. I am going to crawl through the diagnostics and come up
with a next step.

On 7 June 2012 13:10, Andrew <exim-users@???> wrote:

>
> The problem could be related to the MX records for foo.com which point to 0.0.0.0
>
> host -t mx foo.com
> foo.com mail is handled by 1000 0.0.0.0.
>
> however things might fall back to the A records I guess..
> foo.com has address 23.21.179.138
> foo.com has address 23.21.224.150
>
>>
>> I tried editing exim.conf and changed
>>
>> domainlist local_domains = @ : localhost : localhost.localdomain
>> to
>> domainlist local_domains = localhost : localhost.localdomain
>>
>
> @ is the local host name - you should check that the hostname is set correctly and has
> proper forward and reverse DNS entries ( eg linode.foo.com ) as otherwise the
> remote server is likely to reject any messages ( if it thinks you are spoofing some address which
> may be the case if it thinks it handles mail for that domain )
>
>
>  -A