Re: outgoing and incoming mail problems on exim

[Rafael Sasaki <sasaki@solar.com.br>]

Hi,
  maybe you can try to run eximconfig. It will fill in the exim.conf on the right way. But I think the exim.conf is in the /etc directory, at least on mine machine it is. I`m running a stable, not a woody.
  And I think the email-addresses is just to rewrite the local email addresses on the line From: to each user on the file. It doesn`t rewrite the To: line for the outgoing messages, even if the user is known to be local on the email-addresses. I suppose you are sending the message to foo@yahoo.com. So, exim will try to forward the message to a smarthost becouse foo@yahoo.com isn`t on your domain. Try to send it to user@localhost and the message will probably delivered with the line From: foo@yahoo.
  After you run the eximconfig your exim will be able to deliver the message to your isp smtp server(smarthost), or yahoo smtp server, I guess it is your case, if you set it right. Then your message will be delivered to foo@yahoo.com and you will can get it from yahoo.

  I may be wrong, becouse i`m running GNU/Linux for less than a month now, but...

Hope I helped a little :)

Rafael Sasaki
sasaki@solar.com.br


   Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:21:31 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Hoeteck Wee <hede@theunixplace.com>
   Resent-Bcc:

   Hi,

   Exim is failing to deliver outgoing mail and to accept incoming mail for
   me:

   1. outgoing mail: 'exim -d2 -bt foo@yahoo.com' gives
   foo@yahoo.com is undeliverable:
     unrouteable mail domain "yahoo.com"

   with -b11, it says:

   routing foo@yahoo.com, domain yahoo.com
   end of routers reached
   foo@yahoo.com is undeliverable:
     unrouteable mail domain "yahoo.com"

   2. for incoming local mail: 'exim -d2 -bt localuser' gives:
     unknown local-part "localuser" in domain <mydomain>

   but i have localuser: foo@yahoo.com in /etc/email-addresses

   A little more information on exim: I'm running 3.22-4
   from woody, and /etc/exim/exim.conf is empty.

   Thanks in advance!

   -hoeteck