Dear debian-users
I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account
on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say
friendsname@netway.at.
This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server named smtp.netway.at.
I edited just a little text using mutt, hit the key for 'send', the test
message has been relaid in my outbox file, which is probably alright.
But then I recognized quite a lot of modem activity, which
went on for two or three minutes. Now I do have a really slow internet
connection, but several minutes for a text of just two or three lines...
It semed suspicious to me, so I turned it off.
Well, the message hasn't arrived at our mailserver :( But what about the
modem activity? This is really spooky....
Besides it seems, all that exim does in my case is deliver messages
locally. /var/log/exim/mainlog includes the following:
[...]unknown local-part friendsname in domain netway.at
with netway.at being the 'visible mail name of my system' according to
the following entry in my exim.conf:
qualify_domain = netway.at
Now I think that exim tried to deliver an error message to
hetzmann@netway.at according to my /etc/email-addresses:
andy:hetzmann@netway.at
Like before /var/log/exim/mainlog said:
unknown local-part hetzmann in domain netway.at
Besides, I created this file for the purpose of handling outgoing mail,
but now it looks like I can't receive system messages any more which
used to go to /var/spool/mail/andy.
Is my /etc/email-addresses OK?
But the big question is:
How do I manage to make exim send remote mail correctly?
Hoping for your kind support,
Andreas.