Re: Exim sendmail faults

Jason Wong wrote: > On Thursday 04 July 2002 23:47, Liam Gibbs wrote: > > > Are you able to do an nslookup of these domains from the server? > > > > Those, of course, were just example email addresses (I'd replaced > > them before sending out this email so it would be more clear). > > If I use a real email address I get the same error "unrouteable mail > > domain" > > > > I am able to nslookup the addresses before hand so I don't > > understand why the mail delivery is not working... > > Generally, with email problems it is best to show the actual domains, makes > troubleshooting easier. Ok, fair enough. Here are the full errors I get when I try to mail "shinden@sympatico.ca" (BTW, I'm doing it as root but I get the same errors no matter who I'm logged in as or if I do it through PHP): Returned email: From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Jul 04 06:57:34 2002 Envelope-to: root@www.cell.dhs.org X-Failed-Recipients: shinden@sympatico.ca From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@www.cell.dhs.org> To: root@www.cell.dhs.org Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 06:57:34 -0400 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: shinden@sympatico.ca: unrouteable mail domain "sympatico.ca" ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <root@www.cell.dhs.org> Received: from root by www with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Q4Io-0004Fx-00 for <shinden@sympatico.ca>; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 06:57:34 -0400 To: shinden@sympatico.ca Subject: test Message-Id: <E17Q4Io-0004Fx-00@www> From: root <root@www.cell.dhs.org> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 06:57:34 -0400 this is a test & Exim log: 2002-07-04 06:57:34 17Q4Io-0004Fx-00 <= root@www.cell.dhs.org U=root P=local S=3 08 2002-07-04 06:57:34 17Q4Io-0004Fx-00 ** shinden@sympatico.ca: unrouteable mail d omain "sympatico.ca" 2002-07-04 06:57:34 17Q4Io-0004Fz-00 <= <> R=17Q4Io-0004Fx-00 U=mail P=local S=1 076 2002-07-04 06:57:34 17Q4Io-0004Fx-00 Error message sent to root@www.cell.dhs.org 2002-07-04 06:57:34 17Q4Io-0004Fx-00 Completed 2002-07-04 06:57:35 17Q4Io-0004Fz-00 => root <root@www.cell.dhs.org> D=localuser T=local_delivery 2002-07-04 06:57:35 17Q4Io-0004Fz-00 Completed nslookup attempt: www:~# nslookup sympatico.ca Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: sympatico.ca Address: 206.47.72.104 www:~# -- Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.