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Re: exim on a dialup



On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:03 am, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:30:33AM -0800, ben wrote:
> | i'm still getting this:
> |
> | Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))
>
> This is normal and expected.  The Received: headers are there so that
> you can track down problems with mail transfer.  Each MTA that sees
> the message adds itself to the top of the Received: list.  What exim
> is saying is that it saw the message, and the envelope sender was
> "ben" on the "localhost" machine.  That is, you (as a user) asked exim
> (on your machine) to transfer the message for you.
>
> -D

thanks for the response, but that wasn't so much the issue as the fact that 
exim wasn't reading the hostname i had set in a rewrite rule. this was 
resolved by commenting out the local_domains option.



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