Thank you both, 'foo.com' isnt the actual domain name it was just an example as I didn't want to spam the list with my actual domain.
The MX records point to googlemail and exim -bt prints out information for googlemail. I did the exim -d -M thing and got reams of output I don't yet comprehend but one of the complaints was about there being no account for '[email protected]' who is the sender but who doesn't exist at googlemail. I am going to crawl through the diagnostics and come up with a next step. On 7 June 2012 13:10, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem could be related to the MX records for foo.com which point to > 0.0.0.0 > > host -t mx foo.com > foo.com mail is handled by 1000 0.0.0.0. > > however things might fall back to the A records I guess.. > foo.com has address 23.21.179.138 > foo.com has address 23.21.224.150 > >> >> I tried editing exim.conf and changed >> >> domainlist local_domains = @ : localhost : localhost.localdomain >> to >> domainlist local_domains = localhost : localhost.localdomain >> > > @ is the local host name - you should check that the hostname is set > correctly and has > proper forward and reverse DNS entries ( eg linode.foo.com ) as otherwise the > remote server is likely to reject any messages ( if it thinks you are > spoofing some address which > may be the case if it thinks it handles mail for that domain ) > > > -A -- ## 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/
