Re: exim qualify_domain question

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

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:45:08AM +0000, john smith wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem. I want all my outgoing emails to pretend to 
> come from @hotmail.com (bec. I can't leave it blank since my system's 
> hostname won't work; dialup machine) so I set my qualify_domain in exim to 
> @hotmail.com. now when I send to other users@other domains no problem. 
> however, once I want to send to people @hotmail.com I get "lunknown 
> local-part "annk" in domain "hotmail.com". since is because my system thinks 
> email's local when in fact it's not.

Hi,
  you cannot set your qualify domain as @hotmail.com. It is not yours
net domain.
  The field qualify_domain should be filled in with yours net name. To
the field "from" on your outgoing mail be correct you need to edit
the file /etc/email-addresses. Put a line like:
	your_system_logon: your_address@hotmail.com
  This way your system will replace the user@localhost with 
your_name@hotmail.com but won`t take the messages to ...@hotmail.com
as locals.
HTH,
  Rafael Sasaki