Re: Exim config problems

["Marc Mongeon" <Mongeon@bankoe.com>]

These three settings are important in exim.conf:

qualify_domain = ihug.co.nz
qualify_recipient = localhost
local_domains = localhost

Assuming your computer does not have a fully-qualified domain name (most dial-up users don't).
If you do have a FQDN, use that instead of localhost.  So, people who want to send mail to you
will send it to you@ihug.co.nz.  You will use fetchmail to relay the mail from your POP account
to the local machine (tell fetchmail that you want to send it to you@localhost).  You will send
mail to local users by addressing it to user@localhost or just user, and the mail will be routed
locally.  You will send mail to non-local users by addressing it to user@fully.qualified.name, and
the recipient will see you@ihug.co.nz in the "From:" field.  Does that sound like what you wanted?

Marc

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Marc Mongeon <mongeon@bankoe.com>
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>>> Matthew Gregan <kinetik@ihug.co.nz> 06/08 10:21 AM >>>
Greetings...

I've tried searching the debian-user list archive already, and found some messages which probably contain the answer I'm after, but it seems that the actual messages aren't available, so I can't read them... (It was working a week ago when I last tried, but not yesterday or today...)

Anyway, this should be an easy problem to solve for somebody. I've played around with eximconfig a bit, but I can't find how to solve the problem.

I'm using exim and fetchmail for my mail delivery. Exim is setup using option 2 in eximconfig (recommended for dialup systems). Everything is working fine, I can receive email and send it fine, except if I try and send email to people on my ISP. The problem is that outgoing emails have their addresses rewritten as @ihug.co.nz, and my mail system classes these emails as local, so it tries to deliver them on my machine and fails.

I thought I'd fixed this by stopping ihug.co.nz being considered local, but then email generated by cronjobs and such were finding their way to my provider (root@ihug.co.nz - since the outgoing mails were having their addresses rewritten).

I think it should be a simple fix to solve this, but I don't know what it is... I've checked howtos but they only seem to cover other MTAs. :-/

Thanks in advance.
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Matthew Gregan                                kinetik@ihug.co.nz 


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