Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I thought I had exim working well, but then I found I was unable to send > mail to the mail server at one of my ISPs. Eventually I commented out > "qualify_domain" in /etc/exim.conf and this seemed to fix the problem, > but I didn't understand why. > Usually it's the reverse: you set it so that your ISP's SMTP server accepts your mail as coming from a valid Internet domain. As in the case where your mail server is itself not permanently connected (a dialup), and has a "made up" domain name.
Yours is probably already a valid domain, and 'qualify_domain' was set to something invalid.