[techtalk] Exim problem

Kath ranger at optonline.net
Sun Jan 14 19:43:25 EST 2001


Yeppers, that seemed to work.

Thanks!

- Kath

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicole Zimmerman" <colby at wsu.edu>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Exim problem


> 
> Ahh, Exim.
> 
> Do you have anything set in /etc/exim.conf's 
> host_accept_relay=
> (about 20% through the file)
> ?
> 
> To allow my server to relay mail for my local domain, I have this set as:
> host_accept_relay = localhost : 10.64.132.0/24
> 
> I had the same problem you did, and to be honest I'm not sure if this was
> the fix for the entire problem. Exim is a strange beast. ;o)
> 
> -nicole
> 
> At 15:58 on Jan 14, Kath combined all the right letters to say:
> 
> > I have a Debian 2.2 system that acts as a ipmasq server and a web/mail
> > server.  I just reinstalled Debian, and now I can receive email sent
> > from my ISP's account to kath at kathweb.net but I cannot send email from
> > kath at kathweb.net to anywhere else.
> > 
> > I specifically get this error from Outlook:
> > 
> > The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was
> > rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was
> > 'ranger at optonline.net'. Subject 'More testing', Account:
> > 'www.kathweb.net', Server: 'www.kathweb.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server
> > Response: '550 relaying to <ranger at optonline.net> prohibited by
> > administrator', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error
> > Number: 0x800CCC79
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I don't even know where to begin looking in the logs.
> > 
> > - Kath
> > 
> 
> 
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