Re: [PLUG] exim4 and local delivery

[Darian Anthony Patrick <dapatrick@darianpatrick.com>]

There could be a few different answers to this question, based on 
whether how you manager your Exim 4 configuration.  The three choices are:

- Manage your Exim 4 configuration manually yourself in something custom
- Manage your Exim 4 configuration using one monolithic file
- Manage your Exim 4 configuration using a bunch of smaller files that 
live in subdirectories of /etc/exim4/conf.d

We use the latter, so we make the change in 
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, with the dc_other_hostnames 
parameter, as in 
dc_other_hostnames='foo.purple.com:moms.purple.com:pops.purple.com'. 
Then we run update-exim4.conf to update the actual configuration file 
that the exim4 daemon reads from /var someplace.

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Here's a sample log entry from sending myself mail from astra to astra
> (per aspera):
>
>   2005-07-26 12:47:42 1DxSai-00014c-PT <= jeff@purple.com H=localhost [127.0.0.1] U=jeff P=smtp S=299
>   2005-07-26 12:47:42 1DxSai-00014c-PT ** jeff@astra.purple.com: Unrouteable address
>   2005-07-26 12:47:42 1DxSak-00014l-Ga <= <> R=1DxSai-00014c-PT U=Debian-exim P=local S=1088
>   2005-07-26 12:47:42 1DxSak-00014l-Ga ** jeff@purple.com: Unrouteable address
>   2005-07-26 12:47:42 1DxSak-00014l-Ga Frozen (delivery error message)
>   2005-07-26 12:47:42 1DxSai-00014c-PT Completed
>
>
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