On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Hall wrote: > There is only one MX record, oxmail.ox.ac.uk. This name resolves to many > IP addresses, one of which is unavailable: > > $ host -t mx ox.ac.uk > ox.ac.uk MX 9 oxmail.ox.ac.uk > $host oxmail.ox.ac.uk > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.161 > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.163 > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.165 > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.167 > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 129.67.1.171 <-- this host is unavailable > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.161 > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.163 > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.165 > oxmail.ox.ac.uk A 163.1.2.167 > > > You haven't provided enough information about your problem message for me > > to be able to say anything useful. We don't seem to have any problems with > > ox.ac.uk from here. > > The message itself is unremarkable. Exim is attempting to connect to > 129.67.1.171, which times out. > > 2005-08-22 14:15:49 oxmail.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.171]: Connection timed out > 2005-08-22 14:15:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > R=internet T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out > > Exim doesn't seem to retry any of the other IP addresses listed for > oxmail.ox.ac.uk.
Please try a delivery with debugging turned on, catch the stderr output, and see if that gives you a clue. If not, post the output so we can see if we (the list) can figure it out. Something like exim -d -M the-message-id 2>/tmp/something What it *should* do is try the hosts in a random order, unless they are *all* dead and it hasn't hit a retry time for any of the others. You could also try running exinext ox.ac.uk to see if that provides anything helpful. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
