Hi,
In case this message is duplicated, apology in advance.
After configuring exim for a new smarthost, message sending fails.
This might help to identify the problem.
root@dalton:/home/root# exim -bh 142.103.1m.1n
**** SMTP testing session as if from host 142.103.1m.1n
**** but without any ident (RFC 1413) callback.
**** This is not for real!
host in hosts_connection_nolog? no (option unset)
host in host_lookup? yes (matched "*")
looking up host name for 142.103.1m.1n
IP address lookup yielded "dalton.invalid"
checking addresses for dalton.invalid
142.103.1m.1n OK
host in host_reject_connection? no (option unset)
host in sender_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset)
host in recipient_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset)
host in helo_verify_hosts? no (option unset)
host in helo_try_verify_hosts? no (option unset)
host in helo_accept_junk_hosts? no (option unset)
host in pipelining_connect_advertise_hosts? yes (matched "*")
220 dalton.invalid ESMTP Exim 4.94.2 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:02:25 -0700
LOG: SMTP syntax error in "" H=dalton.invalid [142.103.1m.1n]
unrecognized com
mand
500 unrecognized command
LOG: SMTP command timeout on connection from dalton.invalid
[142.103.1m.1n]
421 dalton.invalid: SMTP command timeout - closing connection
root@dalton:/home/root#
A test message produces this in /var/log/exim4/mainlog
2023-03-22 13:39:10 1pf5Ek-0000gQ-Dk <= pe...@easthope.ca
H=localhost.localdomai
n (dalton) [127.0.0.1] P=smtp S=586
2023-03-22 13:39:10 1pf5Ek-0000gQ-Dk == pe...@easthope.ca R=smarthost
T=remote_s
mtp_smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host for
'easthope.ca'
How can the origin of "SMTP syntax error" be found?
Is the correction known already?
Thx, ... P.
