On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 at 18:30 +0100, Don O'Neil wrote
> I just tried the extended logging as you suggested, and here's the output of
> the last attempt before it gave up (it tried a whole host of yahoo hosts
> first). I don't see anything in there that is helping me find the problem.
> What other sorts of issues can cause these types of failures? Any other
> ideas?
Has your machine got multiple interfaces and exim is choosing a different
one from the manual telnet command?
> 17:22:31 8470 Connecting to mta6.am0.yahoodns.net [98.138.112.38]:25 from
> 54.236.194.225 ... failed: Connection timed out (timeout=5m)
Exim has connected from 54.236.194.225 - is that what you were expecting?
For testing you can force an outbound interface on telnet with -b
telnet -b 54.236.194.225 mta6.am0.yahoodns.net smtp
Jonathan
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