On Monday 08 August 2005 15:51, Anurag wrote:

Sometime on Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:18:49PM +0500, sherlock@vsnl.com said:

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I keep getting the following in the exim main.log

R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host

No mails are delivered outside via smarthost (mtnl.net.in) Local deliveries are ok.

MTNL's mail server not responding or refusing smtp connection. Is that machine on mtnl's network?

Nope. Tested out with one that was on mtnl network (dialup isdn). The name is smtp.mtnl.net.in and relaying is blocked. You need to pop before smtp. Google shows http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/06/msg02991.html

rgds jtd