Emails Keep Getting Lost From VPS / Help With EXIM Configuration

[slaterino]

Hi,
I am having problems with emails being sent from my server never arriving at their destination. I rent a VPS server, which is used for a number of FTP accounts, but emails for just one account, which is example.com

At the moment if I go to MXTOOLBOX I get the following error:

"SMTP Banner Check - Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner"

So potentially this could be the problem. I then get this message from the [email protected]:

"Reporting-MTA: dns; 329070.vps-10.com

Action: failed
Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Status: 5.0.0
Remote-MTA: dns; mail.abuseat.org
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 *** The HELO for IP address 46.32.xxx.xxx was 'example.com' (valid syntax) ***"

where blahblah.vps-10.com relates to the Server Name.

I've set 'Send mail from account’s dedicated IP address' to OFF and the options for mailhelo and mailips to ON and also created these two entries for those files:

mailips
"example.com: 46.32.xxx.xxx
mail.example.com: 46.32.xxx.xxx"

mailhelo
"*: example.com"

Does anyone have any idea why my emails may be getting lost? And if so, what I can do to improve the situation? I'm presuming there must be some setting that I need to change and this will improve everything dramatically.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Cheers,
Russ

 

[Kailash1]

Do you see any error in your exim_mainlog?

 

[slaterino]

Well, I can't see anything. I've just had a good look through over the last few days, including for a few emails which were supposedly sent, but they are all showing as completed.

There are some SMTP connections lost but they're all for IP addresses other than mine, so I'm guessing that's not the problem. I can't really find anything with any error message.

However, I am new to EXIM and using a VPS. Is there something in particular I should be looking for?

Best,
Russ

 

[slaterino]

Here is a header from a recent email to one of my other email addresses. This one was received. However, does anything look strange here?

Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.194.21.65 with SMTP id t1csp360799wje;
Thu, 9 Jun 2016 05:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.194.22.167 with SMTP id e7mr9380701wjf.9.1465476799627;
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 05:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from example.com (mail.example.com. [46.32.255.140])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kp4si7732782wjb.76.2016.06.09.05.53.19
for <[email protected]>
(version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 05:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 46.32.255.140 as permitted sender) client-ip=46.32.255.140;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 46.32.255.140 as permitted sender) [email protected]
Received: from host81-135-247-123.range81-135.btcentralplus.com ([81.135.247.123]:57969 helo=[127.0.0.1])
by example.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128)
(Exim 4.87)
(envelope-from <[email protected]>)
id 1bAzSY-0004EQ-B1
for [email protected]; Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:53:18 +0100
To: [email protected]
From: "Russ Slater (Sounds and Colours)" <[email protected]>
Subject: TEST EMAIL
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:53:20 +0100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/45.1.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="------------F70D24B5F029C330B72467A9"
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 160609-0, 09/06/2016), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - example.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - example.com
X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: example.com: authenticated_id: [email protected]
X-Authenticated-Sender: example.com: [email protected]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------F70D24B5F029C330B72467A9
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

I don't see anything out of the ordinary in that output. If Exim shows the message as "Completed" on the cPanel server, then it's likely filtered or marked as SPAM on the destination server before it reaches the user's inbox. Is the issue isolated to a specific destination such as Google, or multiple destinations?

Thank you.