OT: Exim Weirdness

[Jason Cormie]

Sorry Julian,
All I know of exim has come from using it with mailscanner so I thought I'd
try here before trying the exim lists.
I have exim configured as it says in the mailscanner docs, so if it is a
problem with my config then it is also a problem with either the
documentation or the version of exim I am running.

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: 06, January, 2003 15:31
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Exim Weirdness


MailScanner does not get involved with the delivery process at all, so I
don't think this is likely to be a MailScanner problem.

At 13:43 06/01/2003, you wrote:
>Mailscanner 3.26
>Exim 3.35
>
>just back from my hols looking at my mailscanner box.
>used eximstats to look at this mornings exim logs and found this...
>
>List of errors
>--------------
>
>     1 0010295 at ABERTAY.AC.UK: retry timeout exceeded
>
>     1 0010295 at abertay.ac.uk: retry timeout exceeded
>
>     1 0010314 at TAY.AC.UK: retry timeout exceeded
>
>     1 0010314 at tay.ac.uk: retry timeout exceeded
>
>     1 0010331 at abertay.ac.uk: retry timeout exceeded
>
>
>.......
>
>These are all valid addresses which mailscanner should pickup scan then
pass
>onto our exchange box
>I also found this which is disturbing...
>
>         This message was created automatically by mail delivery software
>(Exim).
>
>         A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of
its
>         recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
>failed:
>
>         w.robb at abertay.ac.uk
>                 remote host address is the local host: retry timeout
>exceeded
>
>This is an address that should have been passed to exchange server.

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