Thanks so much, that worked perfectly!

Martin

On 10 Feb 2010, at 9:13 am, John Burnham wrote:

> 
> 
>> 
>> I'm having some problems with exim with my setup. Basically I 
>> have a VPS running Ubuntu. My mail is being handled via a 
>> separate service (fastmail). My MX record is pointing to 
>> them. I need the ability to send emails from web scripts 
>> which is why I installed exim, unfortunately I have an issue 
>> getting exim to look at the MX record for emails to myself
>> 
>> If I try to send an email from my VPS to a non @mcubedsw.com 
>> domain name then is sends fine (eg echo "Hello" | mail -s 
>> "Test" [email protected]). However, if I send an email to an 
>> @mcubedsw.com domain then it doesn't send it. Instead it says 
>> that it is an "unrouteable address". For example:
>> 
>> exim -bt [email protected]
>> R: system_aliases for [email protected]
>> [email protected] is undeliverable: Unrouteable address
>> 
>> I've tried to remove every reference to mcubedsw.com from 
>> config files and spent hours reading docs and googling 
>> solutions to no avail. I'm a bit of a reluctant server admin 
>> so I'm not exactly teeming with experience. Does anyone have 
>> any advice on how to get exim to send emails to my local 
>> domain to the server listed in the MX record for it? 
>> 
> 
> You probably need a router telling exim how to handle mail sent to 
> mcubedsw.com - routers are run in order so stick something in before the 
> dnslookup router - probably a manualroute router if your mail is handled by 
> another system:
> 
> new_router:
>  driver = manualroute
>  transport = remote_smtp 
>  domains = mcubedsw.com
>  route_list = * host.that.accepts.mail.for.your.fastmail.setup
> 
> Give that a go. Also you might want to stick a -d in your command line (exim 
> -d -bt [email protected]) - it'll give you a bit more information.
> 
> John


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