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aswduder
12-25-2004, 05:36 AM
Hi All

I have a dedicated server running RedHat 9/cpanel/whm - and I'm having problems with some email sent by sites hosted on that server. The response I get it is :

SMTP<< 451 Temporary local problem - please try later

One of the accounts that wouldn't receive email is my own account on another ded server. I've managed to get the mail going through by switching off 'Verify the existance of email senders' in the Exim config on that server. Obviously I don't have access to do this on external email accounts, so I need to correct the problem.

I think I may have an idea of what is causing it, but don't know how to resolve it :

The primary ip address of the server sending the email is 65.000.236.18 - and it has the ip addresses in the range 18 ... 22 available to it.

The 'show ip address usage' in whm reports .22 as being in use for the 'hostname' - whereas it should report the primary ip address I guess ?

The etc/hosts file has an entry :

65.000.236.18 server.myhostname.net

The etc/resolv.conf file has :

nameserver 65.000.236.18

There is a correct 'A' entry in DNS for the hostname.



Any ideas would be greatly appreciated ...


Thanks


Andy

aswduder
12-25-2004, 09:52 AM
Please don't spend any time on this as I've decided to move all of the accounts to one of my other servers, so I can then ditch this server completely !

Lebanon
12-25-2004, 11:18 AM
aswduder try those commands :
echo test | exim email@domain.com < replace with your domain
echo test | exim -d+resolver email@domain.com
If the error couldnt help you fix it
Try :
/scripts/reseteximtodefaults
Am a bit sure it will resolve your issue :)