Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails
Hi all,
I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a
problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly from
the server to external recipients and also from other computers within the
network, I don't seem to be able to receive any email sent to my domain.
When I try to email my domain externally I get:
"The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by
the server. The rejected email-mail address was 'blah@blah.com.au'. Subject
'test', Account: 'blah', Server: 'mail.bigpond.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server
Response: '550 Invalid recipient: <blah@blah.com.au>', Port: 25,
Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79"
I recently registered a fixed IP and domain name with my ISP to run my own
website from home using a server running Sarge stable. I have installed the
standard web & mail server options from the Debian vanilla installation disk
and everything else seems to be running correctly: My domain name resolves
via http to '/var/www/' and I can ssh to the machine externally using the
domain name but external emails get rejected.
Also the logs in '/var/log/exim4/' don not show any external successful or
rejected message attempts sent to the server. Does this mean that my email
traffic is being diverted by my ISP's mail servers but all other traffic is
being let through or have I just got a setting wrong in the exim-config?
My 'update-exim4.conf.conf' document has these parameters set:
dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='blah.com.au
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='10.0.0.0/8'
dc_smarthost='blah.com.au'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
Could someone out there please point me in the direction of a solution?
Thanks in advance.
-Duncan
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