After upgrading to 4.98 on a new server (don't know if it's the new exim
or the new server), I get those in my panic log (typo 'calloout' looks
like it's in the source)
2025-11-07 12:12:23 1vHSon-0000000683S-3NA1 recipient verify defer (making
calloout connection): T=remote_smtp Cannot assign requested address
2025-11-07 12:16:27 recipient verify defer (making calloout connection):
T=remote_smtp Cannot assign requested address
The problem is if I run exim in debug mode and check it myself, it works, so
callouts
only fail sometimes and I don't know how why or how to debug further.
I picked an Email that was in my reject pile, and callout is working fine, in
this case
it's getting a timeout which is fine, but that causes a callout failure
which is working as intended and not
T=remote_smtp Cannot assign requested address
The address is an ethernet alias, it's stable:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 2c:cf:67:de:ad:5e
inet addr:209.81.13.137 Bcast:209.81.13.143 Mask:255.255.255.240
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:78656539 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:74837015 errors:0 dropped:12 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10186689830 (9.4 GiB) TX bytes:198888395897 (185.2 GiB)
Interrupt:115
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 2c:cf:67:de:ad:5e
inet addr:209.81.13.136 Bcast:209.81.13.136 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:115
Logs showing when things work, below. Any idea how I can capture this better
or what could be
going wrong?
Mmmh, I had to remove the logs from the Email because the exim list
server was rejecting this Email as spam :-/
https://marc.merlins.org/tmp/exim4.98_callout.txt
hopefully it'll be better like this.
Thanks,
Marc
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