Bug#421980: exim4: ALL outgoing mail returned "Relaying not allowed"

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:08:32PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> The logs show the message being sent smarthost, completed.

Unfortunately, exim logs do not show whether exim did authenticate.

> Then show the return with the error message which does cite the provider's 
> support number, so ...
> 
> If you receive this, it will be because the error message was coming from the 
> smarthost provider and not my exim4. (When I tried without smarthosting 
> before, maybe I did not do it correctly.)

Without seeing the actual logs, my best guess that it is an issue with
your ISP. The ISP shouldn't accept the message it is not going to
deliver in the first place. Accept-and-bounce is bad.

> If it is OK bypassing the smarthost, then either:
> Exim4 is doing something different now that the provider is not
> pleased with, 

I suspect that it is not authenticating.

> or
> the provider has made some little changes and has not documented them to the 
> subscribers (would not be the first time and then it may not be our bug at 
> all).

This is a chance as well. Again, I'd flabg the accept-and-bounce
policy of your smarthost as a bug anyway.

Greetings
Marc


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