Alan Chandler <[email protected]> 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 <= > [email protected] U=root P=local S=389 > 2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bf-0000Mx-0C ** [email protected] 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 [email protected], 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
