Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/10/12 17:00, Alan Chandler wrote: On 10/10/12 09:49, Chris Davies wrote: 4. Failure (bounce) message to root@avalon is being lost - and this is the issue at stake Absolutely correct. I think I have discovered - at least part of the problem - maybe the whole thing. The inaddr.arpa

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 07/10/12 22:31, Chris Davies wrote: Alan Chandlera...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com However, it looks to me like its trying to send a

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: The domain in question is virginiaparkinson.com [..] The one you're trying to deliver to (i.e. mynewdomain.com in the original posting)? The virtual machine is a standard squeeze setup with my update-exim4.conf.conf dc_other_hostnames=''

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread lee
Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk writes: I'll try and be more specific The domain in question is virginiaparkinson.com and I am having , [ dig -t mx virginiaparkinson.com ] | | ; DiG 9.8.1-P1 -t mx virginiaparkinson.com | ;; global options: +cmd | ;; Got answer: | ;; -HEADER-

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/10/12 09:49, Chris Davies wrote: 4. Failure (bounce) message to root@avalon is being lost - and this is the issue at stake Absolutely correct. I think I have discovered - at least part of the problem - maybe the whole thing. The inaddr.arpa address for the IP address of my virtual

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-07 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com However, it looks to me like its trying to send a failure e-mail to me locally

Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-05 Thread Alan Chandler
I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com I have been trying to send mail to a mail address where the server is refusing connections (incorrectly - but that is another story).

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-05 Thread lee
Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk writes: Anyone any idea what is happening - and how I can change the configuration of exim to tell me when mail, like the above, is being refused. It's rather difficult to figure out what's going on without knowing how your exim is configured. Set up