RE: Sending mail via exim: spooky....
On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> 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?
I think your problem is with the local_domains setting in exim.conf.
Make sure you have qualify_recipient set to your hostname (not netway.at) and
local_domains is commented out.
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