On 07/10/12 22:31, Chris Davies wrote:
Alan Chandler<a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has
exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is
avalon.hartley-consultants.com
However, it looks to me like its trying to send a failure e-mail to me
locally somehow.
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bf-0000Mx-0C<=
r...@avalon.hartley-consultants.com U=root P=local S=389
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bf-0000Mx-0C ** i...@mynewdomain.com R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure
period
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bt-0000N0-DT remote host address is the local
host: avalon.hartley-consultants.com
It's difficult to tell without knowing the precise setup on the
machine, but this looks like you've aliased root to the offsite address
i...@mynewdomain.com, but then you've got an entry somewhere that tells
avalon that it *is* mynewdomain.com.
This could be an entry in /etc/hosts, an MX or A record in DNS, or some
fancy aliasing somewhere associated with exim itself.
Avalon accordingly tries to deliver to info, locally, and finds that
this does not exist. Because it's already trying to deliver a bounce
message it simply discards the bouncing bounce and aborts.
Unfortunately, without knowing what mynewdomain.com really is, I can't
run any non-local diagnostics for you. Unless mynewdomain.com really is
yours, in which case you've got a configuration problem there because
it's not accepting mail.
Chris
I'll try and be more specific
The domain in question is virginiaparkinson.com and I am having
particular difficulty with the domain name hosting company to get e-mail
forwarding working with them.
The virtual machine is a standard squeeze setup with my
update-exim4.conf.conf
dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='127.0.0.1;77.96.120.60'
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
(77.96.120.60 is my home ip address where my main mail server sits -
because this is effectively a dynamic ip address I have to route all
outgoing mail through a remote smtp server. Normally I use my ISPs mail
server, but occassionally it becomes slow, or is blacklisted - and this
allows me to rapidly switch to this machine to route outgoing mail through)
/etc/aliases has
root: alan.chand...@hartley-consultants.com
in it
the virtual machines ip address is 80.68.94.252
and both hartley-consultants.com and virginiaparkinson.com have this
domain referencing 80.68.94.252 BUT their MX records both point else
where. In fact hartley-consultants MX record points to 77.96.120.60,
whereas virginiaparkinson.com mx records point somewhere completely
different (at first trial at what seems a non existant mail server that
was refusing connections) I am trying to fix that now.
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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