exim is not working. 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA

[cool38]

Hi,

after i have upgraded to the latest version of cpanel, and rebooted my server, my exim server is not working properly.

therefore, i just did a quick check,

exim is running (with no problem)

/etc/init.d/antirelayd status
antirelayd (pid 3002) is running...

and i ran
/scripts/fixrelayd

root@host [/scripts]# ./fixrelayd
old entry removed
Updating Syslogconf
Shutting down kernel logger: [ OK ]
Shutting down system logger: [ OK ]
Starting system logger: [ OK ]
Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]
Shutting down antirelayd: [ OK ]
Starting antirelayd: [ OK ]
root@host [/scripts]#



with no problem,

and i found
root@host [/scripts]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -L
[FAILED]


also, i've found this under my mail log,

2006-08-03 18:41:15 H=2xx-1xx-2xx-xx.static.bxxx.com (xp) [xxx.xxx.xxx.xx] F=<xxx@xxx.com> rejected RCPT <xxx@gmail.com>: 2xx-1xx-2xx-xx.static.bxxx.com (xp) [xxx.xx.xx.xx] is currently not permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on in your email client.


could anyone tell me how i can fix this problem, please?
receving mails are fine, but none of my user could send emails.

Thanks

[tweakservers]

there's 2 users having this problems recently on the following thread :

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=54385

[nxds]

root@host [/scripts]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -L
[FAILED]

It's not service sendmail start but service exim start. The latter starts antirelayd amongst other things which implements POP before SMTP auth.

Try service sendmail stop then service exim start to fix.

If your server is starting sendmail instead of exim on reboot then you need to fix that too.

[cool38]

i've got this fixed by cpanel support team.

root@host [/scripts]# ./restartsrv_exim
Starting exim: [ OK ]
Starting exim-smtps: [ OK ]
Starting antirelayd: [ OK ]
Starting spamd: [ OK ]
Starting antirelayd: [ OK ]