Marc Sherman wrote:
Shea Martin wrote:
Emails I send to domains like gmail and hotmail, and quite a few
others keep
bouncing with errors like this:
[snip]
2005-11-15 00:36:54 Received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=woody
[192.168.0.2] =
P=esmtpa A=fixed_plain:shea S=534
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2005-11-15 00:36:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer
(-53): retry time not reached for any host
1) mydomain.ca doesn't appear to be your actual domain:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host mydomain.ca
Host mydomain.ca not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Please do not obfuscate your logs, headers, and quoted bounces when
posting to this list.
http://exim.org/eximwiki/MailingListEtiquette#head-a6f7fb5ce8816568569a321f783315207ec38063
2) Your log message seems to be in a strange format; I've never seen a
message like that that didn't have an exim message id (such as
1Ec0o4-000GrI-DR) after the timestamp. They're also missing the "<="
and "==" status flags. Did you remove the IDs and status flags from
your log before posting, or have you changed your log config in exim
in some way? Either way, please don't.
3) The log message you gave only tells us that exim eventually gave up
trying to deliver the message; it doesn't tell us why it failed to
deliver the messages in the first place. Use exigrep to find all the
log messages associated with a given message ID, and you should find
out why gmail and hotmail are tempfailing your deliveries repeatedly.
- Marc
Sorry for log obfuscation. I believe that I have the one of the reasons
my email address recieves spam, is that I have used the email address
(exposed) on mailing lists and newsgroups in the past.
Here is the log (/var/spool/exim/msglog/1EbsYw-00017B-RP) without
obfuscation
<log>
2005-11-15 00:36:54 Received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=woody
[192.168.0.2] P=esmtpa A=fixed_plain:shea S=534
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2005-11-15 00:36:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
2005-11-15 02:38:52 mx1.hotmail.com [64.4.50.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:42:37 mx4.hotmail.com [65.54.253.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:46:21 mx4.hotmail.com [65.54.190.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:50:06 mx3.hotmail.com [65.54.253.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:53:51 mx3.hotmail.com [64.4.50.179] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 02:53:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 03:05:06 mx1.hotmail.com [65.54.166.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 03:05:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 04:38:52 mx1.hotmail.com [65.54.252.99] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 04:42:37 mx1.hotmail.com [64.4.50.50] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 04:42:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 07:08:52 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.190.50] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 07:08:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:08:53 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.252.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:12:37 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.166.230] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:16:22 mx2.hotmail.com [65.54.190.7] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:20:07 mx3.hotmail.com [65.54.167.5] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:23:51 mx3.hotmail.com [64.4.50.239] Connection timed out
2005-11-15 09:23:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out
</log>
I am pretty green at this mail server stuff. It is a bit overwhelming.
My guess is that maybe my server has been black listed? So I am
attempting to 'harden' the mail server, in hopes of getting off.
I have setup close to a dozen different types of servers, on various
unix's/linux's, even written my own special purpose servers, but I must
say setting up smtp has proved to be the most work.
~S
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