exim fialure :((

[petermp]

When, I am trying to send email to a remote host I got this:

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The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[email protected]. Subject 'test', Account: 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx', Server: 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '421 Unexpected failure, please try later', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 421, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

System si FreeBSD 5.2.1

I have no problms sneding emails to local addresses.

Any idea ?

BTW Since I am a customer of a hosting company and I have not bought DA directly can I still contact them for support ?

Thanks,

Peter

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=16

We recommend you first contact your host and get them to contact us if they can't figure it out. We can't easily debug your system with only user access.

John

 

[petermp]

Thanks for the reply. I will contact them on thi issue. The probelm is with relaying and it is strange that it occus on brand new installation of DA.

 

[petermp]

Just to add: that is deicated box - I have full root access

 

[Icheb]

Hmm, had this too. Person who didn't trust me to install DA correctly made a mistake. He forgat to copy the template exim.conf file to the /etc/ directory. I'm not saying this IS the problem, but it might be, since it's a new box and I thought DA didn't do that on it's own if a exim.conf already existed.

2 possible solutions (if this is the problem):
1. Copy the exim.conf from the templates directory of the DA installation to your /etc
2. follow the instructions on the page John gave you:

If you've made any changes to you /etc/exim.conf file and require a fresh copy, you can retrieve one by running
wget -O /etc/exim.conf http://files.directadmin.com/services/exim4.conf

A restart of exim is required after installing a new exim.conf file.