Pkg exim4 users - Jul 2010 - I can't send mails to Gmail, Freemail, my ISP mail etc.

Hi,

on my Debian GNU/Linuy Lenny system have installed exim4 4.69-9,
exim4-daemon-heavy 4.69-9 and have a splitted configuration files.

I have setup:

in file update-exim4.conf.conf
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dc_eximconfig_configtype=''internet''
dc_other_hostnames=''''
dc_local_interfaces=''217.17.111.164''
dc_readhost=''''
dc_relay_domains=''''
dc_minimaldns=''false''
dc_relay_nets=''''
dc_smarthost=''''
CFILEMODE=''644''
dc_use_split_config=''true''
dc_hide_mailname=''''
dc_mailname_in_oh=''true''
dc_localdelivery=''mail_spool''

in file email-addresses
-----------------------
csanyipal: csanyipal at edu.csanyi-pal.info

in file mailname
----------------
edu.csanyi-pal.info

Files paniclog & rejectlog are empty.

In file /var/log/exim4/mainlog I have:
--------------------------------------
2010-07-11 10:08:18 1OXrXB-0000VQ-3g gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com\
 [74.125.43.27] Connection timed out

I tried the commands:
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sudo exim_tidydb -t 1d /var/spool/exim4/ retry > /dev/null
sudo exim_tidydb -t 1d /var/spool/exim4/ reject > /dev/null
sudo exim_tidydb -t 1d /var/spool/exim4/ wait-remote_smtp > /dev/null

hostname gives me
-----------------
edu.csanyi-pal.info

Why can''t I send mails from my Mail Server exim4 to Gmail, Freemail,
my ISP mail, etc?

Any advices will be appreciated!

--
Regards, Paul Chany
You can freely correct me in my English.
http://csanyi-pal.info

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Paul Chany wrote:
> dc_local_interfaces=''217.17.111.164''
..
> dc_smarthost=''''
..
> 2010-07-11 10:08:18 1OXrXB-0000VQ-3g gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com\
> [74.125.43.27] Connection timed out
> Why can''t I send mails from my Mail Server exim4 to Gmail,
Freemail,
> my ISP mail, etc?
# host 217.17.111.164
164.111.17.217.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
164-111-17-217.static.stcable.net.

You probably need to use your ISP''s smarthost (smtp.stcable.net) to
send
mail. Although I''m not entirely happy about ISPs blocking direct
outbound
SMTP access (while allowing inbound!), it is a relatively effective way 
for the ISP to reduce spam originating from their network.

(Besides, it''s always better to use a smarthost when using a domestical
internet access service, since a lot of servers won''t accept mail from 
these ranges of IP-addresses.)


HTH,
  Maarten

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:26:10AM +0200, Paul Chany
wrote:
> 2010-07-11 10:08:18 1OXrXB-0000VQ-3g gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com\
>  [74.125.43.27] Connection timed out
> 
> Why can''t I send mails from my Mail Server exim4 to Gmail,
Freemail,
> my ISP mail, etc?
> 
> Any advices will be appreciated!
http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#myeximcannotconnecttotheoutside

Greetings
Marc

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