Exim configuration and Gmail

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. "me@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?

Hello rich6176@gmail.com,

rich6176@gmail.com schrieb/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).

What does the answer from the gmail server look like when your machine
tries to deliver a mail to it?
Has your machine got a fixed IP Address?

Regards,
Christian
--
Christian Schmidt | Germany | ChriSchmiLi@gmx.de
No HTML Mails, please!!
De eene hett 'n Rittergut, de annere ritt 'n Gitter rut.

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
--
René Berber

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 ?

This is from my logs, just standard connection timeouts.

2007-01-17 06:26:06 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
[64.233.185.27]: Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:29:15 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
[64.233.185.114]: Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:32:24 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
[72.14.205.27]: Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:35:33 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
[66.249.93.27]: Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:38:42 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
[66.249.93.114]: Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:41:51 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ gsmtp163.google.com
[64.233.163.27]: Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:45:00 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ gsmtp183.google.com
[64.233.183.27]: Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:45:00 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ == me@gmail.com R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out
2007-01-17 06:45:00 1H5hkE-0000qZ-PJ ** me@gmail.com: retry timeout
exceeded


Christian Schmidt wrote:
> Hello rich6176@gmail.com,
>
> rich6176@gmail.com schrieb/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).
>
> What does the answer from the gmail server look like when your machine
> tries to deliver a mail to it?
> Has your machine got a fixed IP Address?
>
> Regards,
> Christian
> --
> Christian Schmidt | Germany | ChriSchmiLi@gmx.de
> No HTML Mails, please!!
> De eene hett 'n Rittergut, de annere ritt 'n Gitter rut.

I don't see that option in my configurations files. I have
dc_relay_domains='' and relay_to_domains = MAIN_RELAY_TO_DOMAINS. This
was installed using debconf. Sorry there's still alot I need to learn
about exim.

Cédric THIBAULT wrote:
> 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 ?

I do have a static ip address. In my logs it just looks like connection
timeouts.

Christian Schmidt wrote:
> Hello rich6176@gmail.com,
>
> rich6176@gmail.com schrieb/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).
>
> What does the answer from the gmail server look like when your machine
> tries to deliver a mail to it?
> Has your machine got a fixed IP Address?
>
> Regards,
> Christian
> --
> Christian Schmidt | Germany | ChriSchmiLi@gmx.de
> No HTML Mails, please!!
> De eene hett 'n Rittergut, de annere ritt 'n Gitter rut.

I dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and set it up as a smarthost with my
isp. It works perfect, the from address shows my hostname like I
wanted. Thank you so much for your help.

rich6176@gmail.com wrote:
> I do have a static ip address. In my logs it just looks like connection
> timeouts.
>
> Christian Schmidt wrote:
> > Hello rich6176@gmail.com,
> >
> > rich6176@gmail.com schrieb/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).
> >
> > What does the answer from the gmail server look like when your machine
> > tries to deliver a mail to it?
> > Has your machine got a fixed IP Address?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Christian
> > --
> > Christian Schmidt | Germany | ChriSchmiLi@gmx.de
> > No HTML Mails, please!!
> > De eene hett 'n Rittergut, de annere ritt 'n Gitter rut.

Hello rich6176@gmail.com,

rich6176@gmail.com schrieb/wrote:

> I do have a static ip address. In my logs it just looks like connection
> timeouts.
>
> Christian Schmidt wrote:

Please don't top post.

And what about this:
>> What does the answer from the gmail server look like when your machine
>> tries to deliver a mail to it?

Without showing us what your exim tells you in its logfiles, we won't
be able to help you.

Regards,
Christian
--
Christian Schmidt | Germany | ChriSchmiLi@gmx.de
No HTML Mails, please!!
De eene hett 'n Rittergut, de annere ritt 'n Gitter rut.