Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address
I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has
exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is
avalon.hartley-consultants.com
I have been trying to send mail to a mail address where the server is
refusing connections (incorrectly - but that is another story).
Eventually Exim has detected that this address is bad news and seems to
have made an entry into its database to prevent this address working again.
However, it looks to me like its trying to send a failure e-mail to me
locally somehow. The following is sitting in mainlog after the
following command done from root
exim -v -odf info@mynewdomain.com
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bf-0000Mx-0C <=
root@avalon.hartley-consultants.com U=root P=local S=389
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bf-0000Mx-0C ** info@mynewdomain.com R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure
period
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bt-0000N0-DT <= <> R=1TK1bf-0000Mx-0C
U=Debian-exim P=local S=1340
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bt-0000N0-DT remote host address is the local
host: avalon.hartley-consultants.com
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bt-0000N0-DT ==
root@avalon.hartley-consultants.com R=dnslookup defer (-1): remote host
address is the local host
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bt-0000N0-DT **
root@avalon.hartley-consultants.com: retry timeout exceeded
2012-10-05 07:42:09 1TK1bt-0000N0-DT
root@avalon.hartley-consultants.com: error ignored
2012-10-05 07:42:10 1TK1bt-0000N0-DT Completed
2012-10-05 07:42:10 1TK1bf-0000Mx-0C Completed
Because there are no particular e-mail accounts on this machine, I have
an /etc/aliases file which aliases all the standard addresses
(postmaster etc) to root and then aliases root to one of my normal
e-mail addresses. But my reading of that log is that its somehow failed
to send to root. I do not got any indication (and I would like to -
since the mail is being sent from a web site, and if its not working I
would like to know)
I sent the mail config up via dpgk-reconfigure exim4-config - so it
ought to be a standard direct to internet connection, relaying only
127.0.0.1 and my home ip addresses,
Anyone any idea what is happening - and how I can change the
configuration of exim to tell me when mail, like the above, is being
refused.
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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