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Re: [OT] routing failed



On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:51:53AM +0800, csj wrote:
> 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

Then I should change it (back?) to the name of your box.  I 
didn't even know I had this file, but I see that I do.  Did 
exim create it?

> 
> > 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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David Jardine

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