Re: exim mail error

[Martin Hermanowski <martin@mh57.net>]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:41:43PM -0400, james wrote:
> Hello, I'm running exim as my mail server
> and I'm getting the following error:
> 
> Any idea what this error means:
> 2002-05-06 05:48:22 174f6U-0005xJ-00 <= root@www.cell.dhs.org U=root
> P=local S=311
> 2002-05-06 05:48:22 174f6U-0005xJ-00 ** shinden@sympatico.ca:
> unrouteable mail domain "sympatico.ca"
> 2002-05-06 05:48:22 174f6U-0005xL-00 <= <> R=174f6U-0005xJ-00 U=mail
> P=local S=1079
> 2002-05-06 05:48:22 174f6U-0005xJ-00 Error message sent to
> root@www.cell.dhs.org
> 2002-05-06 05:48:22 174f6U-0005xJ-00 Completed
> 
> I get that error if I try this command:
> echo "this is a test" | mail -s "subject" shinden@sympatico.ca
> 
> If I type in the following command though it works properly:
> echo "this is a test" | mail -s "subject" root@www
> 
> So, I can't mail out past the machine that has exim running
> but I'm not sure why...
> 
> PS: the command that works might be mailing locally so it's
> success might have nothing to do with exim...

Check you dns-settings. What does `host -t mx sympatico.ca' return?

HTH
Martin


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