Re: exim won't relay mail

[Cam Ellison <camellison@dccnet.com>]

* dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> 
> I setup exim on my system this weekend, but it's not working quite
> right.  I had a school assignment to create a simple smtp client so I
> setup exim so I could test it without blocking the phone line.  exim
> delivers locally just fine.  However, it won't send any mail to other
> domains.  I have it configured as a "smarthost" and I can send
> messages using the remote server via telnet.  exim's log seems to
> indicate that it thinks it delivered the message, but messages aren't
> getting out.
> 
> A section from my /etc/exim/exim.conf  (let me know if you want to see
> more :-)) ;
> 
> smarthost:
>   driver = domainlist
>   transport = remote_smtp
>   route_list = * mail.rit.edu bydns_a
> 
I think you will find this works better if you replace "bydns_a" with "byname", unless you are running your own dns server.  I think you need to put the whole thing in quotes, as well, i.e.:

    route_list = "* mail.rit.edu byname"

HTH

Cam


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