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Re: exim mail error



On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:55:47PM -0400, james wrote:
| dman wrote:
| > 
| > 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"
| > 
| > It means that exim doesn't know how it is supposed to get mail to
| > a server that is responsible for the sympatico.ca domain
| 
| Ok, so how do I tell it how to get the mail to an extenal server?

Configure the routers correctly.  :-).  I don't know what is wrong
without seeing your config.  I can't even test it on my system because
I no longer have exim3 (I've got 4.04 now!).

Perhaps
    http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user%40lists.debian.org/msg82754.html
will be helpful?

| > What does
| >     $ grep local_domains /etc/exim/exim.conf
| > show?  sympatico.ca is NOT your local domain.
| 
| www:/etc# grep local_domains exim.conf
| # any data for it. This sets local_domains to an empty string, which is
| not
| local_domains = www.cell.dhs.org:localhost:www
| local_domains_include_host = true
| local_domains_include_host_literals = true
| # in the "local_domains" setting above.

That looks mostly alright.  The fact that 'www' is a local domain is
why sending mail to '<user>@www' works -- exim delivers it directly to
/var/mail/<user> itself and that piece of the routing is configured
correctly.  (note that 'www' is not a FQDN and isn't the greatest idea
for a local domain, but as long as you don't stick those addresses in
public places it won't affect anyone else;  the problem is that only
your system can send mail to @www)

-D

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