Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails
On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote:
> 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?
Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set to listen to 127.0.0.1 it will only
accept connections from localhost, no one outside of localhost will be able
to connect.
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