Thanks for taking the time to look at this, Ted. No, I didn't frame my question very well.
I think it boils down to this: whatever host name I tell exim to use, I assume that a recipient's MTA will always think we are relaying for s15917281.onlinehome-server.info. (And whatever I tell my DNS SPF records are allowed hosts.) Because, even though: If uname -a gives Linux coombe.villagenet.info 3.2.0-24-generic ... and hostname -f gives: coombe.villagenet.info and I set up my SPF records to allow clients' mail from coombe.villagenet.info and I tell exim: ... primary_hostname = coombe.villagenet.info ... qualify_domain = villagenet.info qualify_recipient = villagenet.info ... I was hoping not to have so much mail rejected. But, because we rent our server I have to accept that .... cat /etc/hosts gives 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 82.165.46.221 s15917281.onlinehome-server.info s15917281 82.165.46.221 s391547658.onlinehome.info and nslookup 82.165.46.221 gives 221.46.165.82.in-addr.arpa name = s15917281.onlinehome-server.info. Is there anything I can do to have recipients' MTAs verify coombe.villagenet.info instead? On 1 May 2012, at 06:00, Ted Cooper wrote: > On 30/04/12 19:03, Iain Houston wrote: >> We are getting a percentage of "Not configured to relay" rejections >> when we send out our newsletters. I rent a Cloud Server from 1&1 >> where I run our.nonprofit.com and a couple of others. Most >> recipients' MTAs produce no such rejections ... is it an issue with >> our exim's setup or their MTA's setup? > > You've redacted everything that would be useful to anyone attempting to > actually diagnose your problem with any sort of certainty. As such, here > are some random guesses. > > Your server is either being blocked by the target servers in question, > or they do not accept mail for the recipients even though the MX records > say they should. The domains may have expired or the users may have > moved on. The single error message provided seems to come from the > remote end. > > SPF is IP based so it just needs to have something resolving to all the > IP addresses you want to send mail from if you're using it. Including > the different hostnames all pointing the same IP address serves to add > nothing. > > All of the email addresses must have accepted the confirmation opt-in > email at some point right? You'd have records of when they confirmed. > > > -- > ## List details at https://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 https://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/
