Stephen Gran on 26 Jul 2005 18:44:43 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] exim4 and local delivery


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:53:19PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
> I'm using exim4 and it's working quite well except that it doesn't
> understand that username@purple.com is for local delivery.  It also
> doesn't understand that mail to username@`hostname`.purple.com is for
> local delivery.  It gets it write on username@localhost.

This is handled in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, and the field is
dc_other_hostnames, I think.  colon or space seperated, I am not sure.

> Any thoughts on what to do?  There used to be a file (in exim3) that
> gave local delivery equivalences.  The Debian config used to ask about
> this, but I don't think it did this time.  Or I mis-answered.
> "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" doesn't do anything that I can see.

dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4-config
is what you want.

> Here's a sample log entry from sending myself mail from astra to astra

If you want to avoid the hassle of actually sending an email and getting
a bounce, but want to see what exim thinks it should do with a mail, run 
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bt jeff@purple.com

(you'll need to be in the Debian-exim group, I think).
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