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On an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS, hosted by GoDaddy, I want to be able to send email using my domain name.

I created a mail user noreply@webtest.domain.com through Vestacp, installed Roundcube and checked that I could receive emails from one of my personal addresses (tried with gmail and hotmail).

However when I want to reply, exim4 fails to send, and gives me a "No route to host" error.

# cat /var/log/exim4/mainlog
exim 4.86_2 daemon started: pid=2310, -q30m, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4) port 587 (IPv4) port 2525 (IPv4) and for SMTPS on port 465 (IPv4)
Start queue run: pid=2311
1iDCy2-00021u-SM H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [172.217.197.27] No route to host
1iDD5o-0000bk-Gt <= noreply@webtest.domain.com U=admin P=local S=795 id=337cb2f63221d64985700e25c2074569@webtest.domain.com
1iDCy2-00021u-SM H=alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [64.233.186.27] No route to host
1iDCy2-00021u-SM H=alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.193.27] No route to host
[...]
1iDCy2-00021u-SM == recipient@gmail.com R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out
1iDCzB-0002B3-PK ** root@webtest.domain.com: Unrouteable address
1iDCzB-0002B3-PK Frozen (delivery error message)
1iDD8s-0000gq-H3 <= <> R=1iDD8s-0000go-GN U=Debian-exim P=local S=1211

I tried to run tracepath to one of those ip, and I could see that by default it was taking the GoDaddy inner network's interface, and not the one with the Internet IP:

# tracepath 172.217.218.27
 1?: [LOCALHOST]                                         pmtu 1500
 1:  10.217.15.252                                         0.262ms
[...]
 8:  ash-b1-link.telia.net                                54.953ms asymm 12
 9:  no reply
10:  no reply

I therefore tried to add the interface directive in /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp, and rebooted the VPS.

remote_smtp:
  debug_print = "T: remote_smtp for $local_part@$domain"
  driver = smtp
  interface = 148.72.xx.xx

But I am still getting the same error. I have no idea where to look now.

AlexAngc
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The issue wasn't where I was expecting it to be, it was "simply" the provider GoDaddy requiring me to use their relay server. I understood that by testing the port 25 with $ telnet portquiz.net 25, and to my great surprise, even-though there wasn't any connection on it, or firewall blocking it, it couldn't connect.

The fix:

This will make your mails go through GoDaddy's mail servers, but it's the simplest solution afaik. I edited the config template file /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, and updated the following section to have this:

######################################################################
#                      ROUTERS CONFIGURATION                         #
#               Specifies how addresses are handled                  #
######################################################################
begin routers

smarthost:
  driver = manualroute
  transport = remote_smtp
  route_list = !+local_domains dedrelay.secureserver.net

Then I ran # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config again (I am not sure if the configuration I entered then is the only one that works, but it works for me):

- Internet site;
- System mail name: xxx.secureserver.net (find yours in GoDaddy's My Hosting > Server > YourVPS > Settings tab > Hostname)
- 127.0.0.1 ; ::1
- mydomain.com
- Domain to relay: empty
- Machines to relay: empty
- DNS dial on demand: no
- mbox
- Split config: no

And of course, as you probably have seen it a thousand times on the internet, you can test the configuration with:

echo "hello" | mail -s "Title" recipient@mail.com

However, it may take about 5min for the email to be delivered. A faster way to know if the email is properly being processed is to check if the "SMTP relays" counter is being incremented, in your server's dashboard, on GoDaddy's website.

AlexAngc
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On GoDaddy, cPanel VPS GEN4 CentOS 7 i solve like this:

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smart_route:
driver = manualroute
domains = ! +local_domains
ignore_target_hosts = 127.0.0.0/8
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = * godaddy-server-relay.com::25
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