Re: [OT] routing failed
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:10:52 +0100,
David Jardine wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:18:54AM +0800, csj wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:46:15 +0100,
> > David Jardine wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:51:46AM +0800, csj wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 at 01:24:17 +0100,
> > > > David Jardine wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > Since I first got connected just three or four years ago,
> > > > the Net it seems has become a more and more paraonid
> > > > place.
> > >
> > > Indeed. But not without justification. There are some
> > > funny goings-on out there. Why are your messages - only
> > > yours - scrutinized by "master" before being passed on to
> > > "murphy"? And why does master put adair's name in
> > > parenthesis as if he didn't believe he really existed? And
> > > who is adair? And why does he call you localhost.invalid?
> > > Funny goings-on indeed...
> >
> > Well I put them in. localhost.invalid I believe is more
> > polite than putting, let's say, cnn.com as my domain. What
> > values do I put in as my domain if I don't have one?
>
> Put in where? You previously said you had
>
> local domains = localhost:your_host_name
>
> in exim.config. Where did you put localhost.invalid?
/etc/mailname
> I'll tell you what I've done on my system, which is a
> standalone machine at home used almost exclusively by me but
> occasionally for e-mail by other members of my family. It
> may be a stupid way to do it, but it works all right for us:
>
> 1: Set up a different user for each fragment of my fractured
> persona (one of them being thought of as the main user) and
> each family member. Every e-mail address has its own user.
Done that!
> 2: Put a line in exim.conf's rewrite configuration for each
> user.
Done that!
> 3: Write a .fetchmailrc for each user, and a .fetchmailrc
> for the main user including all the individual e-mail
> addresses.
Now why would I do that? I setup up one persona as the master
non-root "fetchmailer".
> If I want to send or fetch mail from or for a particular
> address, I log in as that user. If I want to fetch mail
> from all addresses, I do it as the main user.
>
> Would such a setup solve your problem?
By large exim works. The problem is with localhost.invalid.
What do I replace it with?
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