Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID:	<3EF08662.64B9FCF7@ieee.org>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:33:54 -0400
From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
X-Accept-Language:	en,pdf
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Lester Ingber <ingber AT ingber DOT com>
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: mutt/exim DNS problems?
References:	<20030618105745 DOT A67029 AT ingber DOT com>

Lester Ingber wrote:
> 
> Pierre:
> 
> Below is the log of the output.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> lester
> 

OK lester, there are a few interesting pieces of info.

You are using the dns server "192.168.111.1"

It reports
DNS lookup of alumni.caltech.edu (MX) gave NO_DATA
DNS lookup of alumni.caltech.edu (A) succeeded
131.215.49.51 in "0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8"? no (end of list)

i.e. alumni.caltech.edu has no special mailer exchange
but uses the regular address 131.215.49.51

I have verified that a mail server is responding at that
address. Its HELO name is alumnus.caltech.edu 

checking status of alumni.caltech.edu
locking /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
locked /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
opened hints database /var/spool/exim/db/retry: flags=0
dbfn_read: key=T:alumni.caltech.edu:131.215.49.51
dbfn_read: key=T:alumni.caltech.edu:131.215.49.51:HGOM19-0000UC-QA
no message retry record
address match: subject=*@alumni.caltech.edu pattern=*
alumni.caltech.edu in "*"? yes (matched "*")
*@alumni.caltech.edu in "*"? yes (matched "*")
retry time not reached: checking ultimate address timeout
alumni.caltech.edu [131.215.49.51] status = unusable

This means that there have been previous failures reaching
alumni.caltech.edu and that exim won't even try for now.

There must be a switch to bypass that delay but simply
deleting /var/spool/exim/db/retry and running the test again
should do the trick.

Make a note of its ownership/permissions and restore them
after the test, because the file will be recreated under your
name, and no the one of the mailserver (SYSTEM, probably).

Pierre

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -