On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a > problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly > from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within > the network, I don't seem to be able to receive any email sent to my > domain. > > When I try to email my domain externally I get: > > "The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected > by the server. The rejected email-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > Subject 'test', Account: 'blah', Server: 'mail.bigpond.com', Protocol: > SMTP, Server Response: '550 Invalid recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>', Port: > 25, > Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79" > > I recently registered a fixed IP and domain name with my ISP to run my own > website from home using a server running Sarge stable. I have installed the > standard web & mail server options from the Debian vanilla installation > disk and everything else seems to be running correctly: My domain name > resolves via http to '/var/www/' and I can ssh to the machine externally > using the domain name but external emails get rejected. > > Also the logs in '/var/log/exim4/' don not show any external successful or > rejected message attempts sent to the server. Does this mean that my email > traffic is being diverted by my ISP's mail servers but all other traffic is > being let through or have I just got a setting wrong in the exim-config? > > My 'update-exim4.conf.conf' document has these parameters set: > > dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet' > dc_other_hostnames='blah.com.au > dc_local_interfaces='' > dc_readhost='' > dc_relay_domains='' > dc_minimaldns='false' > dc_relay_nets='10.0.0.0/8' > dc_smarthost='blah.com.au' > CFILEMODE='644' > dc_use_split_config='false' > dc_hide_mailname='false' > dc_mailname_in_oh='true' > > Could someone out there please point me in the direction of a solution?
Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set to listen to 127.0.0.1 it will only accept connections from localhost, no one outside of localhost will be able to connect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
