Jeff Abrahamson on 26 Jul 2005 20:47:39 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] exim4 and local delivery


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:44:28PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
>   [31 lines, 229 words, 1564 characters]  Top characters: -etnaios
> 
> 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.

Colons.  It doesn't work with commas, I found out. ;-)


> > 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.

Yup, thanks!


> > 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

Forgot about that from sendmail days.  Thanks.

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