Re: Exim troubles
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:01:29PM -0800, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 03:59:15AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> > >> "Ben" == Ben Lutgens <blutgens@mosquitonet.com> writes:
> >
> > Ben> I just upgraded and now I can't send mail to any addresses at my
> > Ben> ISP,
> >
> > What upgrade? From which version to which?
> The latest in unstable
>
> >
> > Ben> I have to "masquerade" my box as my ISP so mail will get through
> > Ben> to any addresses but if I do exim doesn't query the "Smart host"
> > Ben> for the recipient name.
> >
> > How should it query the smarthost for the recipient? You send the mail
> > , how should the smarthost know to whom you want send mail to, if your
> > MTA doesn't tell it?
> I get this error so I assume it's not sending these through the "Smarthost"
> foxx@mosquitonet.com:
> unknown local-part "foxx" in domain "mosquitonet.com"
>
> foxx@mosquitonet.com is his username at our ISP. And since exim thinks my box
> is called mosquitonet.com it looks only on my server for a username of foxx,
> finds none and pukes.
> >
> > If you have problems, your call for help is usually more effective, if
> > you send some hard facts, like error mails you received from some MTA
> > and the relevant parts form log file.
> Log excerpt from one of the damnable errors
>
> 1999-07-06 16:13:26 111fL3-00069r-00 ** foxx@mosquitonet.com: unknown
> local-part "foxx" in domain "mosquitonet.co
> m"
> 1999-07-06 16:13:26 111fL4-00069t-00 <= <> R=111fL3-00069r-00 U=mail P=local
> S=1538
> 1999-07-06 16:13:26 111fL3-00069r-00 Error message sent to
> fugas@mosquitonet.com
> 1999-07-06 16:13:26 111fL3-00069r-00 Completed
> 1999-07-06 16:13:26 111fL4-00069t-00 => fugas <fugas@mosquitonet.com>
> D=localuser T=local_delivery
> 1999-07-06 16:13:26 111fL4-00069t-00 Completed
> >
> > Without the complete error message, it is just guesswork, which is a
> > waste of time.
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Martin
> >
I had this problem before, with smail and sendmail... IIRC you want to
masquerade as the isp domain, but configure your mailer to NOT accept
mail for that domain. I think I had to turn off the option to
rewrite unqualified address as well... so if you send mail to
<user> it gets delivered locally, but if you send to <user>@ispdomain
it gets sent to the smarthost. However, I'm not sure how to do that
with exim.
Hope this helps (in some vague kind of way),
Mike
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