On Jan 13, 12:51 am, rich6... wrote:

> I purchased a domain name for a machine I own and installed exim4 on
> it. I can send an email to my bellsouth email address but not gmail. I
> searched the net and it turns out the reason is because my domain name
> is not considered a trusted domain and it was recommended to use a
> relay server (such as google or bellsouth). If I setup my machine to
> relay to gmail or bellsouth would I be able to keep my email address
> i.e. "m...@mydomain.com" or would the domain name change to bellsouth or
> gmail respectively. If it would change the domain name is there another
> configuration I can use?

Yes to the "would be able to keep" question, a "smart relay" does not
change the message or its headers.

There could be a problem if the "smart relay" does not accept messages
that have a "from" header that uses another domain, you can ask
Bellsouth (your ISP?), I don't know Google but I don't expect them to
relay other domains.

As Christian said, you can review your logs and see why gmail refused
to accept your message. It could be that your domain doesn't have the
appropriate DNS records, forward and reverse resolution for your mail
server.

HTH
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René Berber