Sending mails problem after upgrading / crucial

[pilpelet]

Hi to all ,

I just noticed after few clients called , exim doesnt send mails
it getting ok , the conditions are as follow :

I upgraded exim to the latest with eximscan(from DA post) few days ago .
Not sure but i think it was sending mails fine after(not sure all the way though)

Then i issued few DNS updates yesterday , the DNS servers are not local to DA . and then turned off DA bind .

It all seem to work ok , but the sending mails , i checked it and it seems that mails are passing ok(no auth problem) but its not showing in exim logs and not sending also to the email sent to , what show up is emails that relayed to local accounts (normal emails from the internet) .

Very strange problem ,
I also tried to turn bind on again .

I dont know exactly what it is , also emails sent by DA(backup ready etc..) stoped coming .

Thanks for any help .

 

[nobaloney]

First step is to make sure your server has access to a working DNS server or servers when sending email.

What's the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file?

Are those nameserver IP#s your own nameserver? The one you turned off? If so you should point them elsewhere before turning off your BIND server again.

Unless you know your BIND server is serving the same IP#s as the outside server, then you should turn off your BIND server before you try sending email.

Then try sending an email to me (my address is in my sig) while tailing both the /var/log/exim/mainlog and /var/log/exim/rejectlog log-files.

(use "tail -f /var/llog/exim/mainlog" and tail -f /var/log/exim/rejectlog" in two separate shell instances)

Then post any output to those logs while attempting to send me the email.

Jeff

 

[pilpelet]

Hi ,

I tried that just now , basicly the logs rotate to fast to grab anything , many viruses being rejected etc..

I could peek up this after sending an email via this SMTP .

2004-07-21 11:27:26 1BnIu3-0003Hz-GB == [email protected] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out
2004-07-21 11:27:31 1BnJ0A-0003so-5q H=t

But it wasnt on the reject log .
Iv also checked resolve.conf , seem to be configued fine ,
Im not sure its a DNS problem , i think its exim (not sure though)

Thanks ,