René Berber wrote:
>
> 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
Or it could be because you accept to relay all the domain ? Is it the
case ? Have you the '*' parameter in your relay_domain field ?