Hi, Phil On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:30:06 -0700 in message [email protected], from Phil Pennock <[email protected]> received here at 20/08/2009 07:24:54 It was said:
> On 2009-08-19 at 17:52 +0200, Bill Hayles wrote: > > > hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 172.26.0.2 : .... > > If you use @[] instead of enumerating local IPs manually, then you'll > pick up on all the local IP addresses, including the IPv6 ones. Thanks for the tip. I'll do that. > > > MAILMAN_SMTPHOST > > > > I had this set to "localhost" rather than "local". Just a typo (probably > > typed "localhost" wi8thout thinking) but a significant one. > > Using localhost should have worked, because Exim should have accepted > the mail because it's in relay_from_hosts. > > However, if /etc/hosts has ::1 as a valid IP for localhost, and places > it first so that IPv6 will be used by default, then that would explain > your problem. Even without IPv6 routing, ::1 will be accessible and > mailman might have tried that, and then Exim would reject it. This is my /etc/hosts. I haven't altered it in any way. I don't understand the 127.0.0.2 entry; 172.26.0.14 is the fixed IP of the Exim / Mailman computer on the LAN. # # hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a # "named" name server. # Syntax: # # IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname # 127.0.0.1 localhost # special IPv6 addresses ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback fe00::0 ipv6-localnet ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts 127.0.0.2 craybox.com craybox 172.26.0.14 craybox.com craybox -- 'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all. -- (author unknown) Bill Hayles [email protected] -- ## 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/
