Re: exim ?

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:36:38PM +0000, Robin Gerard wrote:
> hello,
> Sorry for this problem of newbie but
> I can send mails to all users except
> to those who are the same domaine that
> me i.e.:
> my addresse : robin.jag@free.fr
> I send a mail to : xxx.xxx@free.fr
> mailq indicates that nothing it's
> in the queue.

Likely because you're only moeaningfully robin.jag@free.fr on free.fr's
mail server.  You appear to have told your exim that your own machine is
the correct place to deliver all @free.fr mail to.  That is likely not
the case (or else sell that domain for lots of fr.fr. and stop trying
to be an isp until you figure out these "details"). ;-)

What you need to do is tell exim that you are really only authoritative
for mylinuxbox.myphonydomain.org and that it should send out all mail
for all other destinations via free.fr's mail relay.  If you do not do
the latter, then you may find that some mailservers think that you're
a spammer.

Then configure fetchmail and tell it that "user robin.jag is user foo
here", or something along those lines (rtfm - my memory is weak here).

> mutt an balsa gives the same result.

Fix your personal configuration to set a custom "From: robin.jag@free.fr"
header on any mails you write.  That is only a message header and will
not confuse any mta's, but will hint people's mua's where to reply to.

The only disadvantage is having to do this for all mua's independently.
But then fixing it in exim is slightly more than a trivial excercise.
Try it the simple way first.

Cheers,


Joost