First mail adres is not working

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tazmanian

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There are lots of tools available on the 'net that you can use to test mail services.

None of them work without real addresses.

I understand your reticence to post real addresses, but you'll have to do your own testing.

You can shell into your server and try manually sending the address at your client's internet provider while tailing the /var/log/exim/mainlog file. To do that, use the mail command.

Instructions? Read:

# man mail

Jeff
 
Well the proble is for instead this user i created,

I created the user ehrenstein withe the domain ehrensteindam.nl

When i send a email to [email protected] i got the following error:

ehrenstein@colo91
(ultimately generated from [email protected])
Unrouteable address
ehrenstein@colo91
(ultimately generated from [email protected])
Unrouteable address

But when the user created a second email adres, there is no problem to send a email to that adres.

So likely the server cant relay the first mailadres to the right user. Im lost

:(

Also it seems that DA isnt able to send a mail to the email adres the user gave, so they never recieve the welcome mail.
 
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It appears you may not be the only person to have the problem, so I'm bringing it to the attention of DA support.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
It appears you may not be the only person to have the problem, so I'm bringing it to the attention of DA support.

Jeff
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Thanx allready. I will wait :)
 
Hello,

I think it's just a misconfigured hostname:
Code: 
Connected to ehrensteindam.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 [b]least[/b] ESMTP Exim 4.54 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:05:11 +0100
"least" isn't a valid hostname.

Set your hostname to something like server.ehrensteindam.nl (or with some other domain).
Admin Level -> Admin Settings -> Server hostname

Also go through all items in this guide:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=16

John
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
Hello,

I think it's just a misconfigured hostname:
Code: 
Connected to ehrensteindam.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 [b]least[/b] ESMTP Exim 4.54 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:05:11 +0100
"least" isn't a valid hostname.

Set your hostname to something like server.ehrensteindam.nl (or with some other domain).
Admin Level -> Admin Settings -> Server hostname

Also go through all items in this guide:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=16

John
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But that is the name my provider gave it altho i have root acces to this server. how to change it!
 
Hello,

Admin Level -> Admin Settings -> Server hostname

When logged in as root, you can type:
hostname
to see exactly what it's currently set to.
Remember to restart exim after you change the hostname.

Also, add a new dns zone for your hostname (if there isn't one already):
Admin Level -> DNS Administration -> Add Zone (bottom)
domain: server.domain.com
ip: 1.2.3.4
ns1/ns2: your nameservers.

John
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
Hello,

Admin Level -> Admin Settings -> Server hostname

When logged in as root, you can type:
hostname
to see exactly what it's currently set to.
Remember to restart exim after you change the hostname.

Also, add a new dns zone for your hostname (if there isn't one already):
Admin Level -> DNS Administration -> Add Zone (bottom)
domain: server.domain.com
ip: 1.2.3.4
ns1/ns2: your nameservers.

John
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thanx john

I will try that tommorow and will post the outcome....1 thing. the users allready created, do i need to recreate them? i hope not! :)
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
Hello,

Nope, they'll be fine.

John
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Sorry for the late comment.
Did what the DA admin told me to do and YES!!!! it' s working ;)
Thanx!!!

Patrick
 
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