After moving to a fresh Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu installation from an aging Edgy Eft, exim4 is deferring a lot of mail with lines like this one:
2008-04-09 11:09:39 H=athedsl-19963.home.otenet.gr (tgvx) [87.202.78.151] F=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> temporarily rejected RCPT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Whitelisting the sending host in local_host_whitelist gets around the problem, but obviously I don't want to whitelist everybody. Other "temporarily rejected" lines list a cause, such as "greylisted" or "could not complete sender verify", but I'm stumped by these non-specific rejects. My two-part question is (1) how do I debug such generic messages and (2) in case part 1 fails, what do you think is the cause? Googling the list archives and Exim FAQ didn't turn up any good match for this, not that I recognized anyway. exim -bV says: Exim version 4.67 #1 built 04-Oct-2007 20:49:12 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September 6, 2005) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
