On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:49:21PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:51:57PM -0700, kvaughan@bc.cc.ca.us wrote:
> > Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN
> > using exim. Those I send are booted back saying they don't exist on my
> > machine. Mail should go to a server, but it treats all with the same domain
> > as being on my machine. Have gone through the manual but I guess I'm blind.
> Kenward, check out the /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz file, near line 11900 for
> some information on setting up a smarthost thingy.
I don't think that will help if the problem is that exim thinks that it
handles all mail for his domain. Most MTAs implement a luser_relay
option which allows one to specify a host to throw unknown local users
to. In exim this appears to be a smartuser director, and is documented
in the manual.
Try adding after the localuser director in your exim.conf:
startuser:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* mail.relay.for.your.site bydns_a"
(Completely untested and assuming a fairly standard Debian exim
configuration). The other option is to use a fake name or your hostname
internally and use rewriting to make sure any addresses which make it
off your system are valid.
> (Anyone else think exim's docs might be a bit too big? :)
The main problem is knowing what to look for rather than anything else -
it's not very well indexed and doesn't cater to people using different
terminology so well.
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