So, I posted this before, but I did some more work on this. _On my Dedicated Box_ Exim's primary_host / local_domains / ACL section *does* seem to be configured to receive the mail to the appropriate domains [local_domains] when mail is sent out **from the local "mail" command line** on the dedicated box... However, when the mail is sent **from a remote mail server**, [like yahoo.com or my ISP dslextreme.com] to the dedicated box, I get the "550 Error Relay not permitted".
I think that the locally originating mail gets appropriately passed through the exim.configure file, but remotely originating mail does not . When I dig "ithou.org" when I am logged onto the localhost, I get this: dig ithou.org -t mx gives: ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ithou.org. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: ithou.org. 3600 IN MX 20 mail.ithou.org. ithou.org. 3600 IN MX 10 mx.ithou.org. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ithou.org. 3600 IN NS ns2.ithou.org. ithou.org. 3600 IN NS ns1.ithou.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mx.ithou.org. 3600 IN A 216.32.94.10 mail.ithou.org. 3600 IN A 216.32.94.10 ns1.ithou.org. 3600 IN A 216.32.94.10 ns2.ithou.org. 3600 IN A 216.32.94.10 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Mon Aug 14 11:24:01 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 167 whereas the actual godaddy nameservers [where my site nameservers are set up right now] yields the following: dig @park29.secureserver.net ithou.org -t mx gives this output: ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ithou.org. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: ithou.org. 3600 IN MX 10 mx.ithou.org. ithou.org. 3600 IN MX 30 mail.ithou.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mail.ithou.org. 3600 IN A 216.32.94.10 mx.ithou.org. 3600 IN A 216.32.94.10 ;; Query time: 39 msec ;; SERVER: 64.202.165.19#53(64.202.165.19) ;; WHEN: Mon Aug 14 11:29:15 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 99 --------------- Additionally, here's the main parts of the exim configure file: primary_hostname = ithou.org domainlist local_domains = @ : ithou.org : <http://www.ithou.org> www.ithou.org domainlist relay_to_domains = *.ithou.org : ithou.org hostlist relay_from_hosts = localhost : 216.32.94.10 Thanks for any ideas! :-) Finally: and this might be key... when I try to do a telnet test send message from exim, I get the following response: #telnet ithou.org 25 Connected to ithou.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 newinst.layeredtech.com ESMTP Exim 4.62 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:37:00 -0500 ehlo ithou.org 250-newinst.layeredtech.com Hello ithou.org [216.32.94.10] 250-SIZE 52428800 250-PIPELINING 250 HELP MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 OK RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 451 Temporary local problem - please try later Thanks for all your ideas! I've tried to contact LayeredTech.com which is my hosting company to try and set things up with a PTR / DNS record upstream. because Bill Hacker graciously recommended that I do so earlier, but the hosting company is being kinda unresponsive. Anyhow, thanks for your help! Albert -- ## 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/
