Re[2]: exim mail routing...

[Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu>]

I have a smarthost, but things don't work right. My previous debian build 
on this machine worked fine, so the network environment seems OK.

In /etc/exim.conf:

# Send all mail to a smarthost
smarthost:
  driver = domainlist
  transport = remote_smtp
  route_list = "* mail.mum.edu bydns_a"


But I still get the following logfile failures:

yyyy@yahoo.com <xxx@alpha.cs.mum.edu> T=remote_smtp defer (-34): retry time 
not reached for any host

2000-05-21 16:23:00 12tOmO-0006lW-00 ** admin@alpha.cs.mum.edu 
<root@alpha.cs.mum.edu>: un
known local-part "admin" in domain "alpha.cs.mum.edu"
2000-05-21 16:23:00 12tdBc-0000ai-00 ** admin@alpha.cs.mum.edu 
<root@alpha.cs.mum.edu>: un
known local-part "admin" in domain "alpha.cs.mum.edu"
2000-05-21 16:23:00 12tdBc-0000ai-00 Frozen (delivery error message)
2000-05-21 16:23:00 12tdBc-0000al-00 <= <> R=12tOmO-0006lW-00 U=mail 
P=local S=1412
2000-05-21 16:23:00 12tOmO-0006lW-00 Error message sent to 
root@alpha.cs.mum.edu
2000-05-21 16:23:00 12tOmO-0006lW-00 Completed
...
2000-05-21 16:38:00 Start queue run: pid=2297
2000-05-21 16:38:00 12tdBc-0000al-00 Message is frozen
2000-05-21 16:38:00 12tJye-0006gz-00 Message is frozen
2000-05-21 16:38:00 12tdBe-0000az-00 Message is frozen
2000-05-21 16:38:00 12tdBd-0000aw-00 Message is frozen
2000-05-21 16:38:00 12tdBc-0000ai-00 Message is frozen
2000-05-21 16:38:00 12tdBc-0000ao-00 Message is frozen
2000-05-21 16:38:00 End queue run: pid=2297

I found that it accepts mail, then holds it for a few days (see errors 
below), and then send it through OK.

Thanks for any fixes!
Greg

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The original message was received at Sun, 21 May 2000 14:30:30 -0500 (CDT)
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----- Transcript of session follows -----
<guthrie@alpha.cs>... Deferred: Name server: alpha.cs.mum.edu.: host name 
lookup failure
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
Reporting-MTA: dns; cserv.mum.edu
Arrival-Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:30:30 -0500 (CDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; guthrie@alpha.cs.mum.edu
Action: delayed
Status: 4.2.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; alpha.cs.mum.edu
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 18:37:21 -0500 (CDT)
Will-Retry-Until: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:30:30 -0500 (CDT)

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Gregory Guthrie
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