Am sorry for the inconvenience i then found out that my adsl provider does not allow me to send mail directly, and i have to use thier smarthost - which is a new development that they failed to warn me about
Thank you for your responses and help thoug 2008/10/30 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hannibal Ndlovu wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I am using EXIM4 and am having issues with exim not sending mail to >> well known host like gmail, hotmail, yahoo and others, taking upto >> 6hrs or more to deliver a message. >> >> I looked in my logs and i noted that the error it gives for this is >> >> 2008-10-30 08:43:01 1KvABY-0002XP-Qz g.mx.mail.yahoo.com >> [206.190.53.191] Connection timed out >> 2008-10-30 08:43:04 1KvABY-0002XP-Qz e.mx.mail.yahoo.com [216.39.53.1] >> No route to host >> [..] >> 2008-10-30 08:50:12 1KvRBR-0003p1-LK == [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (113): No route to host >> >> can anyone help sort this out because i can ping theses host but exim >> cant send mail to them >> > > What happens if you try to connect manually with > > telnet g.mx.mail.yahoo.com 25 > > -- > Lewis's Law of Travel: > The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, > ever. > > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://move.to/hpkb > > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
