[vexim] Cannot send mail to hotmail?

Andreas westvik andreas.westvik at ktv.no
Mon Dec 1 07:54:22 PST 2008


Sebastian Cabrera skrev:
> Can you take a look at /var/log/exim4/mainlog why this message gets
> frozen? there should be more information than just "retry time not
> reached" (:
>
> regards,
>
> Sebastian
>
>   

This is the log when sending a mail to hotmail.

==> exim4/mainlog <==
2008-12-01 16:38:24 [25408] DNS list lookup defer (probably timeout) for 
2.0.168.192.dynablock.njabl.org: assumed not in list
2008-12-01 16:38:24 [25408] 1L7Aqu-0006bo-GB <= user at server.net 
H=osx.server.net [192.168.0.2]:63693 I=[82.232.102.222]:25 P=esmtpa 
A=plain_login:user at server.net S=1409 
id=C3431BB0-4304-4551-BED1-3C74B4CE9082 at server.net T="ok smtp relay" 
from <user at server.net> for user_ at hotmail.com
2008-12-01 16:38:24 [25413] cwd=/var/spool/exim4 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim4 
-Mc 1L7Aqu-0006bo-GB
2008-12-01 16:38:25 [25413] 1L7Aqu-0006bo-GB ** user_ at hotmail.com 
F=<user at server.net> P=<user at server.net> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: retry 
time not reached for any host after a long failure period
2008-12-01 16:38:25 [25415] cwd=/var/spool/exim4 7 args: /usr/sbin/exim4 
-t -oem -oi -f <> -E1L7Aqu-0006bo-GB
2008-12-01 16:38:25 [25415] 1L7Aqv-0006bv-HG <= <> R=1L7Aqu-0006bo-GB 
U=Debian-exim P=local S=2301 T="Mail delivery failed: returning message 
to sender" from <> for user at server.net
2008-12-01 16:38:25 [25413] 1L7Aqu-0006bo-GB Completed QT=1s
2008-12-01 16:38:25 [25416] cwd=/var/spool/exim4 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim4 
-Mc 1L7Aqv-0006bv-HG
2008-12-01 16:38:25 [25416] 1L7Aqv-0006bv-HG => 
/usr/local/mail/server.net/user/Maildir <user at server.net> F=<> P=<> 
R=virtual_domains T=virtual_delivery S=2350 QT=0s DT=0s
2008-12-01 16:38:25 [25416] 1L7Aqv-0006bv-HG Completed QT=0s


And while I was checking some PTR-info I also checked my stmp settings 
at zoneedit.com:

OK, connected to 34.232.123.54...
< 220 server.net ESMTP Exim 4.69 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:45:19 +0100
 > HELO edit.dnsvr.com
< 250 server.net Hello edit.dnsvr.com [64.85.73.124]
 > MAIL FROM:<user at server.nett>
< 250 OK
 > RCPT TO:<user_ at hotmail.com>
< 550 relay not permitted

Helpful info?

-Andreas



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