[vexim] Cannot send mail to hotmail?

[Sebastian Cabrera]

Hi,

> I found this is the return mail.
>
> Return-path: <user at server3.net>
> Received: from [42.131.119.242] (port=50443 helo=server2.net)
> 	by server.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Linux grus 2.6.8-1-386)
> 	id 1L7BId-0007Ch-2r.
>
> This does not add up. Since I was sending from domain server3.net:D
> I thought helo should helo=server3.net? (server.net is the default server
> name).
> This is highly confusing to me.
> Was this clear enough?

even if this means your server is misconfigured i don't think its a RDNS
check problem. AFAIK should you get a error message directly telling you
that the RDNS check failed (it sure depends on the configuration of the
remote mailserver). I don't think you would get a "retry time not reached"
message as it normally means there is a REAL problem with the remote
mailserver.
Nevertheless if your exim+vexim configuration sends out a wrong helo you
should check it. if you did not locally configure the hostname as
"server3.net" or don't want to, you need to set the "primary hostname"
option in exim4.conf.