EXIM4 – Remote Domains Not Supported

October 6th, 2011 AfterDarkMike

After Moving some sites to a fresh Ubuntu VPS for some testing I noticed that the contact forms were not working.

2011-10-03 03:31:43 1RAZFn-0006hC-I2 <= www-data@corp.host.com U=www-data P=local S=648
2011-10-03 03:31:43 1RAZFn-0006hC-I2 ** sales@host.com R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported
2011-10-03 03:31:43 1RAZFn-0006hE-Ig <= <> R=1RAZFn-0006hC-I2 U=Debian-exim P=local S=1619
2011-10-03 03:31:43 1RAZFn-0006hC-I2 Completed

In my default Ubuntu VPS image, the “local mail only” feature is set.

Executing the following command and selecting the “internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP” option will solve your issue. You should be able to select the default option for the rest of the questions.

admin@db:~$ dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

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6 Responses to “EXIM4 – Remote Domains Not Supported”

1. Hoadley says:

   October 10, 2011 at 5:15 am

   This is all very new to me and also this write-up really opened my eyes.Thanks for sharing with us your wisdom.

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2. Schofell says:

   October 12, 2011 at 5:43 am

   I do not ordinarily comment but I gotta say regards to the post on this one.

   Reply
3. Xty says:

   November 28, 2011 at 1:48 am

   I’m not really familiar with Ubuntu but thanks for the info anyway.

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4. Rushman says:

   January 22, 2012 at 2:13 pm

   Awesome

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5. Wilcoxon says:

   January 23, 2012 at 11:00 pm

   Just out of curiosity, what’s your experience in the field like? I searched around the site and couldn’t find a bio or anything. Either way, thanks for the post!

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6. Anonymous says:

   January 25, 2012 at 4:00 pm

   Good topic. Thanks for fantastic info!

   Reply